insincerity

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, disingenuousness, distortion, emptiness, equivocalness, equivocation, evasive reasoning, facade, fallaciousness, fallacy, false front, false piety, false show, falseheartedness, falseness, feigned belief, flattering tongue, forswearing, fraud, front, goody-goodiness, gush, hollow mockery, hollowness, hypocrisy, image, intrigue, jesuitism, jesuitry, mannerism, mealymouthedness, mere show, misapplication, mockery, mummery, mystification, obfuscation, obscurantism, oiliness, oversubtlety, perjury, perversion, pharisaicalness, pharisaism, philosophism, pietism, pietisticalness, piety, piousness, plausibility, plausibleness, pretense, pretension, prunes and prisms, public image, put-on, putting on airs, rationalization, religionism, religiosity, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, self-righteousness, sham, sharp practice, show, slobber, smarm, snivel, snuffle, sophism, sophistical reasoning, sophistication, sophistry, special pleading, speciosity, specious reasoning, speciousness, stylishness, subtlety, that flattering unction, tongue in cheek, uncandidness, uncandor, unction, unctuousness, unfrankness, unnaturalness, unsincereness, untruthfulness, vicious circle, vicious reasoning

Moby Thesaurus. . 1996.

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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 — 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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