Meaning of INSINCERE
| Pronunciation: | | `insin'seer
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| | Definition: | | [adj] lacking sincerity; "a charming but thoroughly insincere woman"; "their praise was extravagant and insincere" |
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| | Synonyms: | | bootlicking, buttery, dissembling, dissimulating, dissimulative, false, fawning, feigned, fulsome, gilded, hollow, hypocritical, meretricious, obsequious, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, specious, sycophantic, toadyish, unctuous |
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| | Antonyms: | | sincere | | |
| | See Also: | | artful, counterfeit, dishonest, dishonorable, disingenuous, imitative, unreal | |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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