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insincere

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adj.dishonest, pretended

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When you give insincere compliments, for example, you may make your friends feel good — at first, anyway.

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Certainly he should not expect you to have inferred his insincere intent.

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We want you to feel like you’re watching a show that was made by a small group of people that really attacked everything that feels generic or unnecessary or insincere.

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That exposes moderate Democrats to criticism that they went along with their party to increasing the deficit — criticism that will almost certainly emerge however insincere or hypocritical it might be.

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The protestations of Mr. O'Connell were as insincere as his statements were historically untrue.

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It was so evident that the Chinese commissioner was insincere, that hostilities recommenced on the 7th of January.

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I never saw the man, though she gave me a long history of the affair, to which I listened with a forced and insincere sympathy.

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His political ideas were beneath contempt; they were insincere, as he proved, and they were merely an excuse for riot.

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It might be said that the word sincere is a proof of love, and insincere a proof of falsehood.

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But it sounded insincere to her, and she would trust it no further.