About The Word Insincere

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Insincere

Insincere Meaning & Definition
Insincere Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Insincere?

[adj] lacking sincerity; "a charming but thoroughly insincere woman"; "their praise was extravagant and insincere"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Insincere: bootlicking | buttery | dissembling | dissimulating | dissimulative | false | fawning | feigned | fulsome | gilded | hollow | hypocritical | meretricious | obsequious | oily | oleaginous | smarmy | specious | sycophantic | toadyish | unctuous

Related Terms | Find terms related to Insincere: adulatory | affected | ambidextrous | apparently sound | artful | artificial | bland | blandishing | blarneying | buttery | cajoling | calculating | canting | casuistic | colorable | complimentary | courtierly | courtly | crafty | crooked | cunning | deceitful | deceptive | dishonest | disingenuous | dissembling | double | double-dealing | duplicitous | empty | evasive | fair-spoken | faithless | fallacious | false | falsehearted | fawning | fine-spoken | flattering | forsworn | foxy | fulsome | goody | goody-goody | gushing | histrionic | holier-than-thou | hollow | honeyed | honey-mouthed | honey-tongued | hypocritical | illusive | insinuating | jesuitic | la-di-da | lying | Machiavellian | maniere | mannered | mealymouthed | mendacious | obsequious | oily | oily-tongued | overacted | overdone | overrefined | oversubtle | perfidious | perjured | pharisaic | philosophistic | pietistic | pious | plausible | pretentious | sanctified | sanctimonious | scheming | self-righteous | shifty | slick | slimy | slippery | slobbery | sly | smarmy | smooth | smooth-spoken | smooth-tongued | sniveling | soapy | soft-soaping | sophistic | sophistical | specious | stagy | sycophantic | Tartuffian | Tartuffish | theatrical | tongue in cheek | treacherous | tricky | two-faced | uncandid | unctuous | underhanded | unfrank | ungenuine | unnatural | unserious | unsincere | untruthful | vulpine | wheedling | wily

See Also | artful | counterfeit | dishonest | dishonorable | disingenuous | imitative | unreal

Insincere In Webster's Dictionary

\In`sin*cere"\, a. [L. insincerus. See {In-} not, and {Sincere}.] 1. Not being in truth what one appears to be; not sincere; dissembling; hypocritical; disingenuous; deceitful; false; -- said of persons; also of speech, thought; etc.; as, insincere declarations. 2. Disappointing; imperfect; unsound. [Obs.] To render sleep's soft blessings insincere. --Pope. Syn: Dissembling; hollow; hypocritical; deceptive deceitful; false; disingenuous; untrustworthy.

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