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insincere

[ in-sin-seer ]

adjective

  1. not sincere; not honest in the expression of actual feeling; hypocritical.

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insincere

/ ˌɪnsɪnˈsɪə; ˌɪnsɪnˈsɛrɪtɪ /

adjective

  1. lacking sincerity; hypocritical
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Derived Forms

  • ˌԲˈ, adverb
  • insincerity, noun
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ȴ·l adverb
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of insincere1

1625–35; < Latin ԲԳŧܲ tainted, dishonest; in- 3, sincere
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She cast the media’s focus on the Signal chat as a grossly overblown distraction, saying, “We are not going to bend in the face of this insincere outrage.”

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"We are not going to bend in the face of this insincere outrage," Leavitt told reporters at the White House.

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But everyone is at least a little insincere, even the killer, whose mocking arrangements of rose petals and dismembered organs resemble a high school promposal.

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It's designed to make their hatred of preventive medicine seem "reasonable," but is insincere, as evidenced by the lack of interest in doing anything substantive to improve public health.

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The group had been badly damaged by the assassinations, but the sense of celebration in the Hezbollah-dominated areas of Beirut "cannot be dismissed as insincere", said David Wood, a Lebanon analyst with Crisis Group.

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