insincere

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
insincere
    adj 1: lacking sincerity; "a charming but thoroughly insincere
           woman"; "their praise was extravagant and insincere"
           [ant: {sincere}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Insincere \In`sin*cere"\, a. [L. insincerus. See {In-} not, and
   {Sincere}.]
   [1913 Webster]
   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.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Disappointing; imperfect; unsound. [Obs.]
      [1913 Webster]

            To render sleep's soft blessings insincere. --Pope.

   Syn: Dissembling; hollow; hypocritical; deceptive deceitful;
        false; disingenuous; untrustworthy.
        [1913 Webster]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
118 Moby Thesaurus words for "insincere":
      Machiavellian, Tartuffian, Tartuffish, 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,
      honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, honeyed, hypocritical, illusive,
      insinuating, jesuitic, la-di-da, lying, 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, theatrical,
      tongue in cheek, treacherous, tricky, two-faced, uncandid,
      unctuous, underhanded, unfrank, ungenuine, unnatural, unserious,
      unsincere, untruthful, vulpine, wheedling, wily

    

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