Synonyms for Insincere

Synonyms for "insincere" (184 found)

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Closest matches (37)

adulatory affected ambidextrousapparently soundartful artificial bland blandishing blarneying buttery cajoling calculating canting casuistic colorable complimentary counterfeit courtierly courtly crafty

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crooked cunning deceitful deceptive devious dishonest

Noun(3 words)

affected studentsbullshitting clowning

Adjective(6 words)

artificial mechanismartificial processartificial systembackhandeddeceptive discoursedishonest

Verb(1 words)

coerced

Adjective(1 words)

contrived

Strong matches (55)

disingenuous dissembling double double-dealing duplicitous empty evasive factitiousfair spokenfair-spoken faithless fallacious false falsehearted fawningfine spokenfine-spoken flattering forsworn foxy

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fulsome glossy goodygoody goodygoody-goody gushing histrionicholier-than-thouhollow honey-mouthed honey-tongued honeyed hypocritical illusive insinuating jesuitic jesuiticalla-di-dalying machiavellian

Adjective(7 words)

disingenuousempty apologyfalse wordingfauxglib remarkhollowest hypocritical

Verb(5 words)

dissimulatingfake a smilefaked feigned ingratiated

Noun(3 words)

flimflam jivemachine made

Related words (92)

maniere mannered mealymouthed mendacious meretricious obsequious oily oily-tongued overacted overdone overrefined oversubtle perfidious perjured pharisaic pharisaical philosophistic phoney pietistic pious

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Noun(11 words)

most forcedphoneying phonying plastic playactingpretend confidencepretendingrhetorical appealsham simpering singsong

Verb(7 words)

pandered phoneyed phonied playacted pretend pretended simpered

Adjective(8 words)

perky phoney phoniest phonyposed grinpretentious sugarcoatedsynthetic system

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

7 relation types

More general

3 entries

adjective descriptor quality

More specific

4 entries

duplicitousness feignedness hypocrisy pretense

Collocations

5 entries

insincere apologyinsincere excuseinsincere gestureinsincere remarksinsincere smile

Inflections

2 entries

more insinceremost insincere

Derivations

2 entries

insincerely insincerity

Antonyms

1 entries

sincere

similar

28 entries

artful bootlicking buttery counterfeit dishonest dishonorable disingenuous dissimulative false fawning feigned fulsome gilded glossy hypocritical imitative

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Sample sentences

11 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The letter sounds forced, what is worse, insincere.

Source: tatoeba (46772)

They say fine words are no virtue if they're insincere and that's him in a nutshell. He's all talk but doesn't mean a word of it.

Source: tatoeba (71994)

Everyone loves to hear praise, but over-praise has the opposite effect of sounding insincere.

Source: tatoeba (276542)

Tom is insincere.

Source: tatoeba (2203017)

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