单词 | sincere |
释义 | sin·cere 1. a. < the missionaries were prompted by a sincere desire for good — Herman Melville > < was above all sincere and detested any form of pretense or affectation — Terry de Valera > b. (1) < to find and isolate Nazism in its pure sincere form proved extremely difficult — J.C.Harsch > (2) < wood is cheap and wine sincere outside the city gate — Robert Browning > c. < the only sincere glimpse that we get of the living breathing word-compelling Dante — J.R.Lowell > d. < the emotional substratum which we feel to be inseparable from a truly great and sincere work of musical art — Edward Sapir > 2. archaic < air sincere of ceremonious haze — J.R.Lowell > 3. < an entirely sincere and cruel tyrant > Synonyms: < too sincere for dissimulation — Ellen Glasgow > < individuals are considered sincere when there is little or no discrepancy between the goals they seek and those they claim to be seeking — L.W.Doob > wholehearted and whole-souled stress lack of reservation or misgiving and may suggest devotion, zeal, and sincerity < writes himself down a frank and wholehearted Tory — V.L.Parrington > < who could help liking her? her generous nature, her gift for appreciation, her wholehearted, fervid enthusiasm — L.P.Smith > < men whose dedication to their country was whole-souled, nevertheless, and for whom the supreme frustration of personal ambition never deflected them away from public services of a monumental nature — Eric Sevareid > heartfelt suggests a genuine stirring of innermost feelings and usually contrasts with formal, conventional, outwardly indicated, more or less factitious manifestation < our sympathy for you therefore is heartfelt, for we are sharing the same sufferings — Sir Winston Churchill > < if ever men have offered heartfelt thanks to God for deliverance from the perils of the sea, surely we were those men — C.B.Nordhoff & J.N.Hall > hearty may suggest vigorous manifestations like notable warmth and robust exuberance < infuriated elderly traveling salesmen were backslapped all day long by hearty and powerful unknown persons — Sinclair Lewis > < a courtier's laugh, decorous, brief and not too hearty — J.H.Wheelwright > unfeigned may stress spontaneity and absence of simulation < I confess to unfeigned delight in the insurgent propaganda — J.L.Lowes > |
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