insincerity

Word Type

n.

insincerity Meaning Definition

The quality of being insincere; want of sincerity, or of being in reality what one appears to be; dissimulation; hypocritical; deceitfulness; hollowness; untrustworthiness; as, the insincerity of a professed friend; the insincerity of professions of regard.

Synonyms for insincerity

Tartuffery,Tartuffism,affectation,affectedness,airs,airs and graces,apparent soundness,artfulness,artificiality,cant,casuistry,circularity,craftiness,credibility gap,crossed fingers,deceitfulness,disingenuousness,distortion,emptiness,equivocalness,equivocation,evasive reasoning,facade,fallaciousness,fallacy,false front,false piety,false show,falseheartedness,falseness,feigned belief,flattering tongue,forswearing,fraud,front,goody-goodiness,gush,hollow mockery,hollowness,hypocrisy,image,intrigue,jesuitism,jesuitry,mannerism,mealymouthedness,mere show,misapplication,mockery,mummery,mystification,obfuscation,obscurantism,oiliness,oversubtlety,perjury,perversion,pharisaicalness,pharisaism,philosophism,pietism,pietisticalness,piety,piousness,plausibility,plausibleness,pretense,pretension,prunes and prisms,public image,put-on,putting on airs,rationalization,religionism,religiosity,sanctimoniousness,sanctimony,self-righteousness,sham,sharp practice,show,slobber,smarm,snivel,snuffle,sophism,sophistical reasoning,sophistication,sophistry,special pleading,speciosity,specious reasoning,speciousness,stylishness,subtlety,that flattering unction,tongue in cheek,uncandidness,uncandor,unction,unctuousness,unfrankness,unnaturalness,unsincereness,untruthfulness,vicious circle,vicious reasoning

Synonym Search Links for insincerity

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