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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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