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insincere
[ in-sin-seer ]
adjective
- not sincere; not honest in the expression of actual feeling; hypocritical.
Synonyms: two-faced, guileful, disingenuous, deceitful
insincere
/ ˌɪnsɪnˈsɪə; ˌɪnsɪnˈsɛrɪtɪ /
adjective
- lacking sincerity; hypocritical
Derived Forms
- ˌinsinˈcerely, adverb
- insincerity, noun
Other Words From
- insin·cerely adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of insincere1
Example Sentences
When you give insincere compliments, for example, you may make your friends feel good — at first, anyway.
Certainly he should not expect you to have inferred his insincere intent.
We want you to feel like you’re watching a show that was made by a small group of people that really attacked everything that feels generic or unnecessary or insincere.
That exposes moderate Democrats to criticism that they went along with their party to increasing the deficit — criticism that will almost certainly emerge however insincere or hypocritical it might be.
A genuine show of celebrity rudeness, followed by an insincere PR performance?
Hormel publicly dismissed it as insincere and politically motivated.
“You are a great man,” Arafat said, turning on his insincere, oleaginous charm.
On the 47 percent, to whom Romney “apologized” in the most staged and insincere manner possible.
In the most recent Frum-Tomasky dialogue, David argued that Obama's opposition to same sex marriage was insincere.
The protestations of Mr. O'Connell were as insincere as his statements were historically untrue.
It was so evident that the Chinese commissioner was insincere, that hostilities recommenced on the 7th of January.
I never saw the man, though she gave me a long history of the affair, to which I listened with a forced and insincere sympathy.
His political ideas were beneath contempt; they were insincere, as he proved, and they were merely an excuse for riot.
It might be said that the word sincere is a proof of love, and insincere a proof of falsehood.
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