- disingenuous, artful - not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness; "an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time"- David Cannadine; "a disingenuous excuse"
Antonyms: ingenuous, artless, candid, open, heart-to-heart, undistorted