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insincerity

DEFINITIONS OF: insincerity

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n the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical

Synonyms:
falseness, hollowness
Antonyms:
sincerity
the quality of being open and truthful; not deceitful or hypocritical
Types:
hypocrisy
insincerity by virtue of pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not really have
sanctimoniousness, sanctimony
the quality of being hypocritically devout
fulsomeness, oiliness, oleaginousness, smarminess, unction, unctuousness
smug self-serving earnestness
Type of:
untruthfulness
the quality of being untruthful
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