insincerity

in·sin·cere (

n-sîr

)

adj.

Not sincere; hypocritical.

insin·cerely adv.

insin·ceri·ty (-s

-t

) n.

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Noun

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

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ACT affectation candour cant claptrap deception emptiness falseness fulsomely fulsomeness glibly glibness hollowness hypocrisy insincere mendacity oiliness Oleaginousness Over the left shoulder	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. Michael, Brother of Jerry by London, Jack View in context 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	inside-out insider insider dealing insider information insider trading Insidiate Insidiator insidious Insidious disease insidiously insidiousness insight insightful insightfulness insignia insignia of rank insignificance insignificancy insignificant Insignificantly Insignificative Insignment Insimulate insincere insincerely insincerity Insinew Insinuant insinuate insinuating Insinuatingly insinuation Insinuative Insinuator Insinuatory insipid insipidity Insipidly insipidness insipience Insipient insist insistence insistency insistent insistently insisting Insisture Insitiency Insition insnare	insignias insignias insignias insignificance insignificance insignificance insignificances insignificances insignificancies insignificancies insignificancy insignificancy insignificant insignificant insignificant number Insignificant Other insignificantly insignificantly Insignificative Insignment INSIM Insimul computassent Insimulate INSINC insincere insincere insincerely insincerely insincerities insincerities insincerity Insindiso Salvation Christian Voice Organisation Insinew Insinuant insinuate insinuate insinuate insinuate into insinuate into insinuate oneself into insinuated insinuated insinuated insinuated into insinuated into insinuates insinuates insinuates insinuates into insinuates into insinuating insinuating insinuating insinuating into insinuating into insinuatingly insinuatingly insinuation insinuation insinuations insinuations

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ACT
affectation
candour
cant
claptrap
deception
emptiness
falseness
fulsomely
fulsomeness
glibly
glibness
hollowness
hypocrisy
insincere
mendacity
oiliness
Oleaginousness
Over the left shoulder

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.

Michael, Brother of Jerry by London, Jack View in context

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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