Insincerity

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The quality of being insincere; want of sincerity or ingenuousness; dissimulation; hypocrisy; deceitfulness; duplicity.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The quality of being insincere; lack of sincerity, or of being in reality what one appears to be; dissimulation; hypocritical; deceitfulness; hollowness; untrustworthiness
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Property of being insincere, lacking sincerity or truthfulness.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical
  • Word Usage
    "We resent what we call insincerity in emotional expression because we fear being ` ` fooled, '' and there are many whose experiences in being ` ` fooled '' chill sympathy with doubt."
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    hypocrisy  
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