Insincere

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  insincere
       adj : lacking sincerity; "a charming but thoroughly insincere
             woman"; "their praise was extravagant and insincere"
             [ant: {sincere}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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