insincere
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sɪnˈsɪər adjective
not sincere; not honest in the expression of actual feeling; hypocritical.
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| —adj | |
| lacking sincerity; hypocritical | |
| insin'cerely | |
| —adv | |
| insincerity | |
| —n | |
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Insincere
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Word Origin & History
insincere
1634, from L. insincerus "not genuine, not pure, adulterated," from in- "not" + sincerus (see sincere).
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Example sentences
Had he disowned his own reform it would have been another insincere flip-flop, and that would have attracted even more criticism.
Excuses are insincere reasons for not buying or not seeing the salesperson.
But you're insincere at best to say you were confused as to my meaning.
But he is sure to face attacks from those who feel is being insincere, which means everyone.
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