a. Obs. [UN-1 7.]

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  1.  Not frank, candid, or open; disingenuous.

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1638.  Chillingw., Relig. Prot., Answ. to Pref. 6. If beginings be ominous … D. Potter hath cause to look for great store of uningenuous dealing from you.

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1670.  Clarendon, Ess., Tracts (1727), 189. The grossest and most uningenuous importunities of the most worthless men.

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  2.  Ignoble, servile.

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1660.  Jer. Taylor, Ductor, III. ii. rule 9 § 5. It is … an uningenuous subjection, to pay tribute for our meat and drink.

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  Hence † Uningenuousness. Obs.

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1644.  Hammond, Vind. Christ’s Reprehending Peter, 72. I cannot guesse what could be further added to prove the injustice and uningenuousnesse … of this answer.

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