insincere as an adjective: - 1
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insincere
adjective
1 insincere
Lacking sincerity.
Roget 855:
affected,
full of affectation,
pretentious,
pedantic,
stilted,
stagy,
theatrical,
big-sounding,
ad captandum;
canting,
insincere.
not natural,
unnatural;
self-conscious;
maniere;
artificial;
overwrought,
overdone,
overacted;
euphuist
etc.
577.
stiff,
starch,
formal,
prim,
smug,
demure,
tire a quatre epingles,
quakerish,
puritanical,
prudish,
pragmatical,
priggish,
conceited,
coxcomical,
foppish,
dandified;
finical,
finikin;
mincing,
simpering,
namby-pamby,
sentimental.
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Polish: nieszczery
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