The letter sounds forced, what is worse, insincere.
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Insincere
Synonyms for "insincere" (137 found)
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Closest matches (28)
Strong matches (41)
Related words (68)
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Adjective(2 words)
Related word relations
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Antonyms
2 entriesderived
3 entriesrelated to
8 entriessimilar
36 entriesShowing 16 of 36 words.
Translations
26 translations across 19 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- կեղծ adj (not sincere)
Bulgarian
1 entries- неискрен adj (not sincere)
Czech
1 entries- neupřímný adj (not sincere)
Esperanto
1 entries- malsincera adj (not sincere)
Finnish
2 entries- epärehellinen adj (not sincere)
- vilpillinen adj (not sincere)
German
1 entries- unaufrichtig adj (not sincere)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌷𐌹𐌽𐌳𐌰𐍂𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍃 adj (not sincere)
Greek
2 entries- ανειλικρινής adj (not sincere)
- υστερόβουλος adj (not sincere)
Hungarian
1 entries- őszintétlen adj (not sincere)
Khiamniungan Naga
1 entries- tǖkāngkāng adj (not sincere)
Māori
4 entries- kōpūngahuru adj (not sincere)
- kōpūrau adj (not sincere)
- rūkahu adj (not sincere)
- rūpahu adj (not sincere)
Polish
1 entries- nieszczery adj (not sincere)
Portuguese
2 entries- falso adj (not sincere)
- insincero adj (not sincere)
Romanian
1 entries- nesincer adj (not sincere)
Russian
1 entries- неи́скренний adj (not sincere)
Spanish
2 entries- falso adj (not sincere)
- insincero adj (not sincere)
Turkish
1 entries- samimiyetsiz adj (not sincere)
Ukrainian
1 entries- нещи́рий adj (not sincere)
Welsh
1 entries- blaentafod adj (not sincere)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
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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