insincere
Adjective
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Lacking sincerity (synset 302188427)
"a charming but thoroughly insincere woman"; "their praise was extravagant and insincere"also:
- counterfeit, imitative - not genuine; imitating something superior
- dishonest, dishonorable - deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive
- artful, disingenuous - not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness
- unreal - lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria
- false - not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality
tells us about: sincerity - the quality of being open and truthful; not deceitful or hypocriticalsimilar to:- bootlicking, fawning, obsequious, sycophantic, toadyish - attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
- 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, glossy, meretricious, specious - based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
- hypocritical - professing feelings or virtues one does not have
- plausible - given to or characterized by presenting specious arguments
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