Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
lacking sincerity;
- Example: "a charming but thoroughly insincere woman"- Example: "their praise was extravagant and insincere"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Insincere \In`sin*cere"\, a. [L. insincerus. See In- not, and
Sincere.]
[1913 Webster]
1. Not being in truth what one appears to be; not sincere;
dissembling; hypocritical; disingenuous; deceitful; false;
-- said of persons; also of speech, thought; etc.; as,
insincere declarations.
[1913 Webster]
2. Disappointing; imperfect; unsound. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]
To render sleep's soft blessings insincere. --Pope.
Syn: Dissembling; hollow; hypocritical; deceptive deceitful;
false; disingenuous; untrustworthy.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
insincere
adj 1: lacking sincerity; "a charming but thoroughly insincere
woman"; "their praise was extravagant and insincere"
[ant: sincere]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
118 Moby Thesaurus words for "insincere":
Machiavellian, Tartuffian, Tartuffish, adulatory, affected,
ambidextrous, apparently sound, artful, artificial, bland,
blandishing, blarneying, buttery, cajoling, calculating, canting,
casuistic, colorable, complimentary, courtierly, courtly, crafty,
crooked, cunning, deceitful, deceptive, dishonest, disingenuous,
dissembling, double, double-dealing, duplicitous, empty, evasive,
fair-spoken, faithless, fallacious, false, falsehearted, fawning,
fine-spoken, flattering, forsworn, foxy, fulsome, goody,
goody-goody, gushing, histrionic, holier-than-thou, hollow,
honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, honeyed, hypocritical, illusive,
insinuating, jesuitic, la-di-da, lying, maniere, mannered,
mealymouthed, mendacious, obsequious, oily, oily-tongued,
overacted, overdone, overrefined, oversubtle, perfidious, perjured,
pharisaic, philosophistic, pietistic, pious, plausible,
pretentious, sanctified, sanctimonious, scheming, self-righteous,
shifty, slick, slimy, slippery, slobbery, sly, smarmy, smooth,
smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, sniveling, soapy, soft-soaping,
sophistic, sophistical, specious, stagy, sycophantic, theatrical,
tongue in cheek, treacherous, tricky, two-faced, uncandid,
unctuous, underhanded, unfrank, ungenuine, unnatural, unserious,
unsincere, untruthful, vulpine, wheedling, wily