Insincerity
[,ɪnsɪn'serətɪ] or [,ɪnsɪn'sɛrəti]
Definition
(noun.) the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical.
Typist: Marvin--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
Editor: Terence
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Duplicity, hypocrisy, cant, dissimulation, deceitfulness, disingenuousness, unfairness, dishonesty.
Checked by Candy
Examples
- He saw the pilgrimage crowds, and noted the threads of insincerity and superstition in the paganism of the town. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But Aristotle simply described without confusion and without that insincerity always attendant upon mental confusion, the life that was before him. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Editor: Manuel