English > insincere: 1 sense > adjective 1| Meaning | lacking sincerity. |
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| Examples | - "a charming but thoroughly insincere woman"
- "their praise was extravagant and insincere"
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| Attribute of | sincerity | The quality of being open and truthful |
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| Narrower | bootlicking, fawning, obsequious, sycophantic, toadyish | attempting to win favor / favor / favor from influential people by flattery |
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| buttery, fulsome, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuous | unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech |
| dissimulative | concealing under a false appearance with the intent to deceive |
| false | deliberately deceptive |
| feigned | not genuine |
| gilded, meretricious, specious, glossy | Based on pretense |
| hypocritical | professing feelings or virtues one does not have |
| plausible | Given to or characterized by presenting specious arguments |
| See also | counterfeit, imitative | not genuine |
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| dishonest, dishonorable | deceptive or fraudulent |
| disingenuous, artful | not straightforward or candid / candid |
| false | not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality |
| unreal | lacking in reality or substance or genuineness |
| Opposite | sincere | open and genuine |
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| Spanish | hipócrita, insincero |
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| Nouns | insincerity | the quality of not being open or truthful |
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| Adverbs | insincerely | without sincerity |
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