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insincere, a.|ɪnsɪnˈsɪə(r)|
[ad. L. insincēr-us not genuine, adulterated, dishonest, f. in- (in-3) + sincērus sincere.]
1. Not sincere or genuine; assuming a false guise in speech or conduct; dissembling, disingenuous. Said of persons and their actions or behaviour.
1634Canne Necess. Separ. (1849) 280 We are persuaded they are merely their own dreams, purposely taken up, to countenance by them, if they could, their insincere walking. 1674Marvell Corr. ccxviii. Wks. 1872–5 II. 424 Things stand as I heare but ticklish and insincere betwixt us and Holland. a1704T. Brown Sat. agst. Wom. Wks. 1730 I. 56 Alternate smiles and frowns, both insincere. 1745Wesley Answ. Ch. 12 You make them a close, reserved, insincere deceitful people. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xxi. IV. 564 The King..was never much inclined to engage in a commerce of insincere compliments.
†2. Not pure or genuine; adulterated, unsound.
(The quotations cited in J. and in later Dicts. for this sense have unsincere in the originals: see unsincere.) |