Insincere

Definition: Insincere

Insincere

Adjective

1. Lacking sincerity; "a charming but thoroughly insincere woman"; "their praise was extravagant and insincere".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "insincere" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1780. (references)

Etymology: Insincere \In`sin*cere"\, adjective. [Latin expression insincerus. See In- not, and Sincere.]. (references)

Synonyms: Insincere

Affectation

Adjective: affected, full of affectation, pretentious, pedantic, stilted, stagy, theatrical, big-sounding, ad captandum; canting, insincere.

Crosswords: Insincere

She's not easy to get along with, I can tell you, ask anybody and she has the reputation of being one of the most extravagant girls in Paris as well as one of the most insincere She's the kind who says one thing and thinks another (Camille; writing credit: Zoe Akins)

I am being insincere (Hook; performing artist: Blues Traveler)

And I can be so insincere, (Absolutely (Story Of A Girl); performing artist: Nine Days)

Bottom feeder insincere (A Change (Would Do You Good); performing artist: Sheryl Crow)

We'll crucify the insincere tonight (Tonight, Tonight; performing artist: The smashing pumpkins)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

i pasinqertë (devious, disingenuous, hypocritical, left handed, phoney, phony, tortuous). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منافق (dissembler, double, double faced, double-dealer, double-tongued, hypocrite, hypocritical, prig, two faced), ‏مخادع (artful, bluff, bluffer, crafty, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, devious, dishonest, disingenuous, double, double dealing, double-tongued, face, false, fraudulent, hustler, illusive, illusory, indirect, misguiding, misleading, sly, trickish, tricky, underhand, wily), ‏مراء (dissembler, double faced, hypocrite, two faced, two sided), ‏غير مخلص (unfaithful), ‏خادع (bluffy, crafty, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, delusory, dishonest, double dealing, fallacious, false, fool, illusive, illusory, misleading, rip off, trickish, tricky, wily). (various references)

Bulgarian 

фалшив (bastard, bogus, brummagem, counterfeit, dummy, factitious, fake, false, fictitious, hollow, imitative, mock, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, queer, sharp, snide, spurious, supposititious, tinsel), неоткровен, неискрен (disingenuous, false, feigned, hollow, hollow-hearted, lip, lip-deep, mealy mouthed, oblique, phoney, pretended, synthetic, tortuous). (various references)

Chinese 

虚伪, 嚚 (stupid). (various references)

Czech

neupřímný (disingenuous, hollow-hearted, hypocritical, two-tongued). (various references)

Farsi 

غیرصمیمی (Distant, Hollow, Lukewarm), ریاکار (Hypocritical), دورو (Hypocritical, Janusfaced, Januslike), بی صداقت . (various references)

French

insincère, pas sincère, hypocrite, de mauvaise foi. (various references)

German

unaufrichtig (disingenuous, false, falsely, hollow, insincerely, untruthful), falsch (bogus, cattish, cattishly, counterfeit, deceitful, erroneous, fake, false, falsely, fictitious, forged, imitation, improper, incorrect, incorrectly, loaded, mistaken, nonfactual, off-key, phoney, phony, pseudo, put on, sham, spurious, unsounded, untrue, wrong, wrongly). (various references)

Greek 

υστερόβουλοσ (designing), ανειλικρινήσ (cheap, disingenuous, lip, mealymouthed, shifty), ανειλικρινής (mealy-mouthed). (various references)

Hebrew 

לא כן (disingenuous), עקמ� י (crooked, dishonest), צבוע (hypocrite, painted, pharisaical, pharisee, smoothy). (various references)

Hungarian

tettetett (affected, assumed, false, feigned, pretended), színlelt (bogus, bravado, dummy, feigned, feint, fictional, make believe, make-believe, ostensible, to feint), nem őszinte (disingenuous), kétszínû (ambidextrous, dichromatic, double dealing, double faced, double-hearted, double-tongued, pussyfoot, two faced), kétszínű (double, false, snake), hamis (adulterous, bastard, bogus, counterfeit, deceitful, disingenuous, dud, dummy, factitious, false, frame-up, hollow, loaded, make-believe, mendacious, meretricious, mock, mockery, off-key, out of tune, phoney, phony, pseud, pseudo, sham, simulated, snide, spurious, supposititious, surreptitious, two faced, untrue, untruthful), õszintétlen. (various references)

Indonesian

bermuka dua. (various references)

Italian

insincero (disingenuous, two faced), finto (artificial, bogus, double, dummy, false, feigned, fictious, mock, ostensible, pretended, pseudo, sham), falso (apocryphal, counterfeit, deceitful, disingenuous, dud, dummy, erroneous, faithless, fake, fallacious, false, falsehood, forgery, intrue, lying, mock, phoney, phony, pretended, pseudo, sham, spoof, tin, wrong). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

浮薄 (caprice, cold-heartedness, fickle, frivolous). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふはく (caprice, cold-heartedness, fickle, frivolous). (various references)

Korean 

불성실한. (various references)

Manx

neuynrick (affected, unfaithful), neufirrinagh (affected, fictitious, perfidious, unfaithful), neufeer. (various references)

Norwegian

uoppriktig, uekte (bastard, false). (various references)

Pig Latin

insincereay.(various references)

Portuguese

insincero (backhanded, disingenuous, unctuous), hipócrita (cant, canting, dissembler, double, double-dealer, double-faced, hypocrite, hypocritical, pecksniffian, prudish, sanctimonious, self-righteous, two-faced, two-tongued), fingido (artificial, assumed, cattish, double, faked, false, feigned, forced, make-believe, pretended, sham, supposititious), falso (apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus, brummagem, buckram, cammed, canting, counterfeit, deceitful, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, dummy, erroneous, faked, false, flash, hollow-hearted, imitation, lying, mendacious, mock, off-key, ostensible, painted, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, pretended, professed, self-styled, shifty, shoddy, simulated, sklent, slippery, slippy, snaky, snide, so-called, spurious, supposititious, traitorous, treacherous, truthless, two-faced, two-tongued, unfair, untrue, untrustworthy, wrong). (various references)

Romanian

nesincer (backhand, devious, disingenuous, double faced, hollow-hearted, insincerely, pecksniffian, tortuous, truthless), fals (apparent, artificial, bad, base, bogus, cant, colourable, counterfeit, deceitful, double dealing, dud, dummy, erroneous, erroneously, error, factitious, fake, false, falsehood, feigned, flash, forged, forgery, fraud, glossy, hollow, hollow-hearted, imitation, imposture, lying, mendacious, mistaken, mock, painted, phony, plugged, reprobate, sham, spurious, sugary, tinsel, treacherous, trumpery, truthless, two faced, unnatural, unnaturally, untrue, wrong, wrongfully). (various references)

Russian 

неискренний (affected, canting, devious, diplomatic, disingenuous, fulsome, hollow, hollow-hearted, lip, lip-deep, mealymouthed, mealy-mouthed, tongue in cheek, tortuous). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

neiskren (affected, devious, disingenuous, double-tongued, fulsome, hollow-hearted, left handed, lip-deep, oblique). (various references)

Spanish

insincero (disingenuous, glib, hollow-hearted, phoney). (various references)

Swedish

falsk (bad, bogus, devious, disingenuous, double faced, dud, dummy, fake, false, flash, forged, fulsome, hollow, imitation, janus-faced, meretricious, mistaken, mock, off-key, phoney, pinchbeck, postiche, pseudo, sham, supposititious, two faced, unsound, untrue, wrong). (various references)

Turkish

ikiyüzlü (counterfeiter, double, double dealing, double-dealer, hypocrite, hypocritical, janus-faced, pharisaic, pharisaical, pharisee, shammer, simulator, smooth tongued, smooth-faced, smoothie, soft spoken, two faced), iki yüzlü (ambidexter, ambidextrous, bilateral, disingenuous, dissembler, double dealing, double faced, double-dealer, double-minded, double-tongued, false, hypocrite, hypocritical, left handed, pharisaic, pharisaical, shammer, slimy, smooth tongued, smooth-faced, smoothie, two sided), samimiyetsiz (double-minded, hollow-hearted, mealy mouthed), samimi olmayan (disingenuous, make believe), sadakâtsiz (disloyal, false-hearted, inconstant, perfidious, unfaithful, untrue). (various references)

Ukrainian

нещирий (bad, disingenuous, false, lip, tongue in cheek, underhand). (various references)

Vietnamese 

không th� nh thực, không chân tình, giả dối (hollow-hearted, lubricous). (various references)

Welsh

ffuantus (bogus, disingenuous). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "insincere": insincerely. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Insincere" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Iniscarn, insencere. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cinerins.

-2 letters: cinerin, eirenic, incense, irenics, sericin, sincere.

-3 letters: censer, cerise, incise, inners, irenic, nereis, nieces, renins, ricins, screen, secern, seiner, serein, serine, sinner.

-4 letters: cense, ceres, cines, cires, cries, ernes, icier, inner, nenes, nicer, niece, nines, nisei, reins, renin, resin, rices, ricin, rinse, risen, scene, scree, seine, serin, since, siree, siren, sneer.

-5 letters: cees.

+2 letters: ancientries, creatinines, incinerates, inerrancies, insincerely, relicensing, reminiscent, renitencies.

+3 letters: containerise, incendiaries, indirectness, inheritances, innumeracies, insurgencies, intercession, intersecting, intersection, itinerancies, pertinencies, princeliness, reinfections, reinjections, reinspecting, reinspection, reminiscence, stringencies, transiencies.

+4 letters: antirecession, astringencies, bicentenaries, containerised, containerises, containerizes, impertinences, inclinometers, inconsiderate, indifferences, indiscernible, inexperiences, infrequencies, insincerities, interceptions, intercessions, interjections, intersections, intransigence, intricateness, necessitarian, oneiromancies, rechristening, reconsidering, reindictments, reinspections, reminiscences, reminiscently, uncertainties, unreminiscent.