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insincere

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Main Entry: insincere
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dishonest, pretended

Synonyms:

ambidextrous, backhanded, deceitful, deceptive, devious, disingenuous, dissembling, dissimulating, double, double-dealing, duplicitous, evasive, faithless, fake, false, hollow, hypocritical, lying, mendacious, perfidious, phony, pretentious, put-on, shifty, slick, sly, snide, two-faced, unfaithful, untrue, untruthful

Antonyms:

forthright, frank, honest, open, sincere
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*, put-on, spurious, theatrical, unnatural

Antonyms:

genuine, natural, unaffected, unpretentious
Main Entry: devious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dishonest, crafty

Synonyms:

artful, calculating, crooked, deceitful, double-dealing, duplicitous, errant, erring, evasive, faking one out, fishy, foxy*, fraudulent, guileful, indirect, insidious, insincere, not straightforward, oblique, obliquitous, playing games, playing politics, put on, roundabout, scheming, shady, shifty, shrewd, sly, sneaking, sneaky, surreptitious, treacherous, tricky, underhanded, wily

Antonyms:

artless, frank, honest, open, straightforward, trustworthy, truthful
Main Entry: double-dealing
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: cheating, deceitful

Synonyms:

ambidextrous, crooked, dishonest, double, duplicitous, fraudulent, hypocritical, insincere, left- handed, lying, perfidious, sneaky, swindling, treacherous, tricky, two-faced, two-timing, underhanded, untrustworthy, wily

Antonyms:

forthright, honest, truthful
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
Main Entry: feigned
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: pretended

Synonyms:

affected, artificial, assumed, counterfeit, fabricated, fake, faked, false, fictitious, imaginary, imagined, imitation, insincere, phony, pretended, pseudo*, put-on, sham*, simulated, spurious

Antonyms:

genuine, real, sincere
Main Entry: forced
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: compulsory, strained

Synonyms:

affected, artificial, begrudging, binding, bound, coerced, coercive, compelled, conscripted, constrained, contrived, enforced, factitious, false, grudging, inflexible, insincere, involuntary, labored, mandatory, obligatory, peremptory, rigid, slave, stiff, stringent, unnatural, unwilling, wooden
Notes: forcible indicates the use of brute force, forced means done involuntarily, and forceful suggests a potential for force

Antonyms:

noncompulsory, spontaneous, unforced, voluntary
Main Entry: fulsome
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: sickening or excessive behavior

Synonyms:

adulatory, bombastic, buttery, canting, cloying, coarse, extravagant, fawning, flattering, glib, grandiloquent, hypocritical, immoderate, ingratiating, inordinate, insincere, magniloquent, mealy-mouthed, nauseating, offensive, oily, oleaginous, overdone, saccharine, sanctimonious, slick*, slimy*, smarmy, smooth, suave, sycophantic, unctuous, wheedling

Antonyms:

reasonable, sincere
Main Entry: glib
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: slick, smooth-talking

Synonyms:

artful, articulate, easy, eloquent, facile, fast-talking, flip, fluent, garrulous, hot-air, insincere, loquacious, plausible, quick, ready, silver-tongued, slippery*, smooth operator, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, suave, talkative, urbane, vocal, vocative, voluble

Antonyms:

inarticulate, quiet, stuttering, tongue-tied, uncommunicative
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