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Adjective: insincere  `in-sin'sir [N. Amer], `in-sin'si-u(r) [Brit]
  1. Lacking sincerity
    "a charming but thoroughly insincere woman"; "their praise was extravagant and insincere"

See also: artful, bootlicking, buttery, counterfeit, dishonest, dishonorable [US], dishonourable [Brit, Cdn], disingenuous, dissimulative, false, fawning, feigned, fulsome, gilded, hypocritical, imitative, insincerely, insincerity, meretricious, obsequious, oily, oleaginous, plausible, sincerity, smarmy, soapy, specious, sycophantic, toadyish, unctuous, unreal

Antonym: sincere

Encyclopedia: Insincere