insincerity

insincerity
n
1. disingenuousness, uncandidness, unfrankness, mealy-mouthedness; artificiality, Inf. phoniness, dissembling, dissimulation, cant, lip service, mouth honor, Inf. hokum, flattery, smooth talk; deceit-fulness, dishonesty, underhandedness, crookedness, trickiness; faithlessness, bad faith, betrayal, Judas kiss, disloyalty, perfidy, treachery, foul play; falseness, false-heartedness, double-dealing, duplicity, hy-procrisy, mendacity, lying, untruthfulness, hollowness, emptiness; artfulness, insidiousness, guilefulness, cunning, craftiness, slyness, wiliness, foxiness; shiftiness, slipperiness, smoothness, slickness.
2. deceit, trick, stratagem, ruse, artifice, pretense; contrivance, wile, misrepresentation, distortion, exaggeration; sham, hoax, imposture, Inf. flimflam, Inf. flam.

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  • Insincerity — In sin*cer i*ty, n. [Cf. F. insinc[ e]rit[ e].] The quality of being insincere; lack of sincerity, or of being in reality what one appears to be; dissimulation; hypocritical; deceitfulness; hollowness; untrustworthiness; as, the insincerity of a… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • insincerity — index bad faith, deceit, deception, dishonesty, disloyalty, duplicity, falsification, hypocrisy, improbity …   Law dictionary

  • insincerity — (n.) 1540s, from L. insincerus (see INSINCERE (Cf. insincere)) + ITY (Cf. ity) …   Etymology dictionary

  • insincerity — [in΄sin ser′ə tē] n. 1. the quality of being insincere 2. pl. insincerities an insincere act, remark, etc …   English World dictionary

  • insincerity — noun Property of being insincere, lacking sincerity or truthfulness. His insincerity was obvious to all, he was neither honest nor believable. Ant: sincerity …   Wiktionary

  • insincerity — insincere ► ADJECTIVE ▪ not expressing genuine feelings. DERIVATIVES insincerely adverb insincerity noun (pl. insincerities) …   English terms dictionary

  • insincerity — noun see insincere …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • insincerity — /in sin ser i tee/, n., pl. insincerities for 2. 1. the quality of being insincere; lack of sincerity; hypocrisy; deceitfulness. 2. an instance of being insincere: He recalled their many past insincerities. [1540 50; IN 3 + SINCERITY] * * * …   Universalium

  • insincerity — Synonyms and related words: Tartuffery, Tartuffism, affectation, affectedness, airs, airs and graces, apparent soundness, artfulness, artificiality, cant, casuistry, circularity, craftiness, credibility gap, crossed fingers, deceitfulness,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • insincerity — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. distortion, falsity, pretense, lies; see deception 1 , dishonesty , hypocrisy . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Lack of sincerity: ambidexterity, artificiality, disingenuousness, phoniness. See HONEST …   English dictionary for students

  • insincerity — in·sin cer·i·ty || ‚ɪnsɪn serÉ™tɪ n. lack of sincerity, lack of honesty, deceitfulness …   English contemporary dictionary

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