Insincere
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.
Disappointing; imperfect; unsound.
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Insincere Quotations
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Buddha
I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
Plautus
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
Samuel Richardson
It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.
George Henry Lewes
I just don't like people coming up to me and saying something. It immediately makes you become insincere. There is no way you can react to it sincerely.
Tom Verlaine
There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.
Daniel Smith
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
V. S. Pritchett
Insincere Translations
insincere in German is unaufrichtig, unaufrichtig, falsch
insincere in Norwegian is uoppriktig, uekte
insincere in Spanish is insincero
insincere in Swedish is ej uppriktig, falsk
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