| Main Entry: | insincerity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | distortion |
Synonyms: |
deceitfulness, deception, dishonesty, falsity, hypocrisy, lies, pretense |
| Main Entry: | affectation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pretended behavior to make an impression |
Synonyms: |
air, airs, appearance, artificiality, facade, false front, front, going Hollywood, imitation, insincerity, mannerism, pose, pretense, pretension, pretentiousness, put-on, putting on airs, sham*, show, showing off, simulation |
Antonyms: |
naturalness, simplicity |
| Main Entry: | cant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hypocritical statement |
Synonyms: |
affected piety, deceit, dishonesty, humbug, hypocrisy, hypocriticalness, insincerity, lip service, pecksniffery, pharisaicalness, pious platitudes, pomposity, pretense, pretentiousness, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, sham holiness, show |
| Main Entry: | deception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misleading; being dishonest |
Synonyms: |
beguilement, betrayal, blarney, boondoggle, cheat, circumvention, cozenage, craftiness, cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, deceptiveness, defraudation, dirt, disinformation, dissimulation, double-dealing, dupery, duplicity, equivocation, falsehood, fast one, flimflam, fraud, fraudulence, guile, hokum, hypocrisy, imposition, insincerity, juggling, legerdemain, lying, mendacity, pretense, prevarication, snow job, sophism, treachery, treason, trickery, trickiness, trumpery, untruth |
Antonyms: |
frankness, honesty, honor, openness, trustworthiness, truth, truthfulness, uprightness |
| Main Entry: | falsity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dishonesty, deception |
Synonyms: |
canard, cheating, deceit, deceptiveness, disingenuousness, double-dealing, duplicity, erroneousness, error, faithlessness, fake, fallacy, falsehood, fib, fraud, fraudulence, hypocrisy, inaccuracy, infidelity, insincerity, lie, mendacity, misrepresentation, perfidiousness, perfidy, prevarication, sham, story, tale, treachery, uncandidness, unfaithfulness, unreality, untruth |
Antonyms: |
honesty, truth, truthfulness |
| Main Entry: | hypocrisy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deceitfulness, pretense |
Synonyms: |
affectation, bad faith, bigotry, cant, casuistry, deceit, deception, dishonesty, display, dissembling, dissimulation, double-dealing, duplicity, false profession, falsity, fraud, glibness, imposture, insincerity, irreverence, lie, lip service, mockery, pharisaicalness, pharisaism, phoniness, pietism, quackery, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, speciousness, unctuousness |
Antonyms: |
forthrightness, honesty, righteousness, sincerity, truth |
| Main Entry: | lip service |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | empty talk |
Synonyms: |
duplicity, empty talk, hollow words, hypocrisy, hypocritical respect, insincerity, jive, lie, lip devotion, lip homage, lip praise, lip reverence, lip worship, mouth honor, mouthing, sham, smooth talk, sweet talk, token agreement, tokenism, tongue in cheek, unctuousness |
| Main Entry: | pretense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | falsehood, affected show; cover |
Synonyms: |
act, acting, affectation, appearance, artifice, charade, claim, cloak, deceit, deception, display, dissimulation, double-dealing, dumb act, evasion, excuse, fabrication, facade, fakery, faking, falsification, feigning, gag, guise, insincerity, invention, make-believe, mask, masquerade, misrepresentation, misstatement, ostentation, posing, posturing, pretentiousness, pretext, routine, ruse, schtick, semblance, sham*, shuffling, simulation, stall, stunt, subterfuge, trickery, veil, veneer, wile |
Antonyms: |
honesty, openness, reality, truth |
| Main Entry: | affectedness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | affectation |
Synonyms: |
air, grandiosity, insincerity, mannerism, pretense, pretension, pretentiousness |
| Main Entry: | pharisaism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hypocrisy |
Synonyms: |
affectation, bad faith, bigotry, cant, casuistry, deceit, deception, dishonesty, display, dissembling, dissimulation, double-dealing, duplicity, false profession, falsity, fraud*, glibness, imposture, insincerity, irreverence, lie, lip service, mockery, pharisaicalness, phoniness, pietism, quackery, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, speciousness, tartuffery, two-facedness, unctuousness |