INSINCERE

Pronunciation (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does insincere mean? 

• INSINCERE (adjective)
  The adjective INSINCERE has 1 sense:

1. lacking sincerity

  Familiarity information: INSINCERE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INSINCERE (adjective)

Meaning:

Lacking sincerity

Context examples:

a charming but thoroughly insincere woman / their praise was extravagant and insincere

Similar:

dissembling; dissimulating; dissimulative (concealing under a false appearance with the intent to deceive)

plausible (given to or characterized by presenting specious arguments)

hypocritical (professing feelings or virtues one does not have)

gilded; meretricious; specious (based on pretense; deceptively pleasing)

feigned (not genuine)

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)

false; hollow (deliberately deceptive)

Also:

false (not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality)

unreal (lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria)

artful; disingenuous (not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness)

dishonest; dishonorable (deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive)

counterfeit; imitative (not genuine; imitating something superior)

Attribute:

sincerity (the quality of being open and truthful; not deceitful or hypocritical)

Antonym:

sincere (open and genuine; not deceitful)