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insincerity

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in·sin·cere  (nsn-sîr)
adj.
Not sincere; hypocritical.
insin·cerely adv.
insin·ceri·ty (-sr-t) n.
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Noun1.insincerity - the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical
falseness, hollowness
hypocrisy - insincerity by virtue of pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not really have
untruthfulness - the quality of being untruthful
sincerity - the quality of being open and truthful; not deceitful or hypocritical; "his sincerity inspired belief"; "they demanded some proof of my sincerity"
insincerity
noun deceitfulness, hypocrisy, pretence, dishonesty, lip service, duplicity, deviousness, perfidy, mendacity, dissimulation, faithlessness, disingenuousness, untruthfulness Too many superlatives lend a note of insincerity.
honesty, sincerity, directness, faithfulness, truthfulness
Quotations
"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink" [George Orwell Politics and the English Language]
Translations
insincerity [ˌɪnsɪnˈserɪtɪ] N → falta f de sinceridad, insinceridad f
insincerity [ˌɪnsɪnˈsɛrɪti] n → absence f de sincérité
insincerity
n → Unaufrichtigkeit f; (of person, smile also) → Falschheit f
insincerity [ˌɪnsɪnˈsɛrɪtɪ] n → falsità, ipocrisia
insincerity [ˌɪnsɪnˈsɛrɪtɪ] n → falsità, ipocrisia


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He knew the cold-blooded insincerity of them, for, at night, when he was brought to Del Mar's room, he heard only the cold brittle tones, sensed only the threat and the menace of the other's personality, felt, when touched by the other's hand, only a stiffness and sharpness of contact that was like to so much steel or wood in so far as all subtle tenderness of heart and spirit was absent.
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When he sat with his elbows on the dusty writing table in the deathlike stillness of the study, calm and significant memories of the last few days rose one after another in his imagination, particularly of the battle of Borodino and of that vague sense of his own insignificance and insincerity compared with the truth, simplicity, and strength of the class of men he mentally classed as they.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
It throws a shadow of insincerity over their most deeply felt emotions.
Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
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