insincere - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | insincere |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest, pretended |
| Synonyms: | backhanded, deceitful, deceptive, devious, disingenuous, double, double-dealing, duplicitous, evasive, faithless, fake, false, hollow, hypocritical, lying, mendacious, perfidious, phony, pretentious, shifty, slick, sly, snide, two-faced*, unfaithful, untrue, untruthful, ambidextrous, dissembling, dissimulating, put-on |
| Antonyms: | forthright, frank, honest, open, sincere |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | double-dealing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cheating, deceitful |
| Synonyms: | crooked, dishonest, double, duplicitous, fraudulent, hypocritical, insincere, lying, perfidious, sneaky, treacherous, tricky, two-faced*, two-timing, underhanded, untrustworthy, wily, ambidextrous, left- handed, swindling |
| Antonyms: | forthright, honest, truthful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | feigned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pretended |
| Synonyms: | affected, artificial, assumed, counterfeit, fake, false, fictitious, imaginary, imagined, imitation, insincere, phony, pretended, pseudo*, sham*, simulated, spurious, fabricated, faked, put-on |
| Antonyms: | genuine, real, sincere |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | forced |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | compulsory, strained |
| Synonyms: | affected, artificial, binding, bound, contrived, enforced, factitious, false, inflexible, insincere, involuntary, labored, mandatory, obligatory, peremptory, rigid, slave, stiff, stringent, unnatural, unwilling, wooden*, begrudging, coerced, coercive, compelled, conscripted, constrained, grudging |
| Notes: | forcible indicates the use of brute force, forced means done involuntarily, and forceful suggests a potential for force |
| Antonyms: | spontaneous, voluntary, noncompulsory, unforced |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fulsome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sickening or excessive behavior |
| Synonyms: | bombastic, buttery, canting, cloying, coarse, extravagant, fawning, flattering, glib, grandiloquent, hypocritical, immoderate, ingratiating, inordinate, insincere, magniloquent, mealy-mouthed, nauseating, offensive, oily*, overdone, saccharine, sanctimonious, slick*, slimy*, smooth, suave, unctuous, adulatory, oleaginous, smarmy, sycophantic, wheedling |
| Antonyms: | reasonable, sincere |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | glib |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | slick, smooth-talking |
| Synonyms: | artful, articulate, easy, eloquent, facile, flip, fluent, garrulous, insincere, loquacious, plausible, quick, ready, silver-tongued*, slippery*, suave, talkative, urbane, vocal, voluble, fast-talking, hot-air, smooth operator, smooth-spoken*, smooth-tongued, vocative |
| Antonyms: | inarticulate, quiet, tongue-tied, uncommunicative, stuttering |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hypocritical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceitful, pretending |
| Synonyms: | affected, artificial, assuming, bland, canting, captious, deceptive, double, double-dealing, duplicitous, faithless, false, fishy*, fraudulent, glib, hollow, insincere, left-handed, lying, oily, phony, pious, sanctimonious, self-righteous, smooth, snide, specious, spurious, two-faced*, unctuous, unnatural, unreliable, caviling, deluding, dissembling, feigning, jivey, moralistic, pharisaical, pietistic, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued |
| Antonyms: | actual, authentic, forthright, honest, just, real, reliable, righteous, sincere, truthful, upright |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mendacious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest |
| Synonyms: | deceitful, deceptive, duplicitous, erroneous, fallacious, false, fraudulent, insincere, lying, perfidious, shifty, spurious, untrue, untruthful, wrong, equivocating, fibbing, paltering, perjured, prevaricating |
| Antonyms: | frank, honest, sincere, truthful |
| Main Entry: | meretricious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gaudy, flashy |
| Synonyms: | blatant, bogus, brazen, chintzy, counterfeit, garish, glaring, insincere, loud, misleading, ornate, phony, plastic*, sham, showy, spurious, superficial, tawdry, trashy, put-on, tinsel |
| Antonyms: | genuine, real, unembellished, undecorated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mincing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | affected, pretentious |
| Synonyms: | artificial, dainty, delicate, effeminate, fastidious, finicky, fussy, genteel, insincere, nice, particular, persnickety, precious, sissy, squeamish, stilted, unnatural, finical, la-di-da, too-too |
| Antonyms: | extroverted, unaffected, unpretentious |
| Main Entry: | sanctimonious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | self-righteous |
| Synonyms: | bigoted, canting, false, goody-goody*, holier-than-thou*, hypocritical, insincere, pious, preachy, self-satisfied, smug, stuffy, unctuous, Pecksniffian, deceiving, pharisaical, pietistic |
| Antonyms: | humble, meek, modest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | two-faced |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceitful |
| Synonyms: | artful, crafty, cunning, deceptive, dishonest, double-dealing, foxy, fraudulent, hypocritical, insincere, knavish, lying, misleading, shifty, sly, sneaky, tricky, underhanded, untruthful, backstabbing, beguiling, deceiving, guileful |
| Main Entry: | unnatural |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not regular; artificial |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, abnormal, affected, anomalous, assumed, bizarre, contrary, contrived, ersatz*, extraordinary, factitious, false, feigned, forced, freakish, imitation, incredible, insincere, irregular, labored, made-up*, make-believe*, odd, outlandish, outrageous, perverse, perverted, phony, preposterous, pseudo*, queer, stiff, stilted*, strained, strange, studied, supernatural, synthetic, theatrical, unaccountable, uncanny, unorthodox, unusual, concocted, fabricated, freaky, put-on, staged, unconforming |
| Antonyms: | acceptable, genuine, natural, real |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unreal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fake, make-believe; hypothetical |
| Synonyms: | aerial, artificial, chimerical, delusive, dreamlike, fabled, fabulous, false, fanciful, fictitious, ideal, illusory, imaginary, imagined, immaterial, impalpable, insincere, insubstantial, intangible, legendary, misleading, mock, mythical, nebulous, nonexistent, ostensible, pretended, romantic, seeming, sham*, theoretical, unbelievable, unsubstantial, visionary, fictive, figmental, hallucinatory, invented, notional, phantasmagoric, reachy, storybook, suppositious, supposititious |
| Antonyms: | authentic, genuine, real |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | canting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hypocritical |
| Synonyms: | dishonest, insincere, self-righteous, two-faced |
| Main Entry: | mealy-mouthed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pretentious |
| Synonyms: | affected, deceptive, devious, disingenuous, equivocal, hypocritical, insincere |
| Main Entry: | devious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest, crafty |
| Synonyms: | artful, calculating, crooked, deceitful, double-dealing, duplicitous, errant, erring, evasive, fishy*, foxy*, fraudulent, indirect, insidious, insincere, oblique, put on, roundabout, scheming, shady, shifty, shrewd, sly, sneaky, surreptitious, treacherous, tricky, underhanded, wily, faking one out, guileful, not straightforward, obliquitous, playing games, playing politics, sneaking |
| Antonyms: | artless, frank, honest, open, straightforward, trustworthy, truthful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | affected |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | changed in a bad or artificial way |
| Synonyms: | apish, artificial, assumed, awkward, campy, chichi*, conceited, contrived, counterfeit, counterfeited, faked, false, feigned, fraud*, gone Hollywood, ham*, hammy, high falutin', hollow, imitated, insincere, melodramatic, ostentatious, overdone, pedantic, phony, playacting, pompous, precious, pretended, pretentious, put-on, schmaltzy, self-conscious, shallow, sham*, simulated, spurious, stiff, stilted, studied, superficial, theatrical, unnatural |
| Antonyms: | ok, unchanged, unhurt, unimpaired, uninjured |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | artificial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pretended; affected |
| Synonyms: | assumed, contrived, false, feigned, forced, hollow, insincere, labored, mannered, meretricious, phony*, spurious, theatrical, unnatural, put-on |
| Antonyms: | genuine, natural, unaffected, unpretentious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | empty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fruitless, ineffective |
| Synonyms: | aimless, banal, barren, cheap, dead, deadpan, devoid, dishonest, dumb, expressionless, fatuous, flat, frivolous, futile, hollow, idle, ignorant, inane, ineffectual, inexpressive, insincere, insipid, jejune, meaningless, nugatory, otiose, paltry, petty, purposeless, senseless, silly, trivial, unintelligent, unreal, unsatisfactory, unsubstantial, vacuous, vain, valueless, vapid, worthless |
| Antonyms: | abundant, copious, effective, fruitful, productive, sufficient |
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