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insincerely, adv.|ɪnsɪnˈsɪəlɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In an insincere manner; without sincerity or candour; disingenuously.
1625Bp. R. Montagu App Cæsar i. iv. 26 For dealing in the case so insincerely and calumniously in their Informations. 1692Locke 3rd Let. Toleration i. Wks. 1727 II. 310 Speaking insincerely is to speak otherwise than one thinks, let what he says be true or false. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xii. III. 170 The few Protestants who remained in that part of the country joined in greeting him, and perhaps not insincerely. 1886H. F. Lester Under two Fig Trees 3, I told Katrina insincerely that it was of no consequence. |