| 单词 | insincere |
| 释义 | insincere (once / 2460 pages) adj Someone who's insincere is a little bit fake or phony. Your classmate's insincere apology for interrupting you probably sounds like she doesn't really mean it. When you're insincere, you're not being completely honest. A losing politician often gives an insincere-sounding concession speech, and a teacher who's having a terrible day might wear an insincere smile on her face. The adjective sincere, "coming from genuine, honest feelings," is at the root of insincere — the Latin prefix in, or "not," is combined with sincerus, "sound, pure, or whole." WORD FAMILYinsincere: insincerely, insincerest, insincerity+/insincerity: insincerities/sincere: insincere, sincerely, sincerer, sincerest, sincerity/sincerity: sincerities USAGE EXAMPLESIsraelis will be convinced that Western assurances of support are insincere and reversible. Wall Street Journal(Dec 29, 2016) China criticized Mr. Abe’s visit as an insincere attempt to absolve Japan of its wartime aggression. Washington Times(Dec 27, 2016) They had been halfhearted tokens of penance, insincere, corrupt gestures meant more for his own appeasement than hers. Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns(2007) adj lacking sincerity a charming but thoroughly insincere woman their praise was extravagant and insincere Syn|Ant counterfeit, imitative not genuine; imitating something superior dishonest, dishonorabledeceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive artful, disingenuousnot straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness unreallacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria bootlicking, fawning, obsequious, sycophantic, toadyishattempting to win favor from influential people by flattery buttery, fulsome, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuousunpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech dissimulativeconcealing under a false appearance with the intent to deceive falsedeliberately deceptive feignednot genuine gilded, meretricious, speciousbased on pretense; deceptively pleasing hypocriticalprofessing feelings or virtues one does not have plausiblegiven to or characterized by presenting specious arguments falsenot in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality sincere open and genuine; not deceitful echt, genuinenot fake or counterfeit honest, honorablenot disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent artless, ingenuouscharacterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious existent, realbeing or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory bona fideundertaken in good faith cordialsincerely or intensely felt dear, devout, earnest, heartfeltearnest honestwithout dissimulation; frank genuine, true, unfeignednot pretended; sincerely felt or expressed heart-whole, whole-souled, wholeheartedwith unconditional and enthusiastic devotion trueconsistent with fact or reality; not false |
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