'Insincere' definitions:
Definition of 'insincere'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Lacking sincerity; "a charming but thoroughly insincere woman"; "their praise was extravagant and insincere" [ant: sincere]
Definition of 'Insincere'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'insincere'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Machiavellian,
- 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,
- Tartuffian,
- Tartuffish,
- theatrical,
- tongue in cheek,
- treacherous,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- uncandid,
- unctuous,
- underhanded,
- unfrank,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unserious,
- unsincere,
- untruthful,
- vulpine,
- wheedling,
- wily