insincerelyadv.
/ɪnsɪnˈsɪəli/ In an insincere manner; without sincerity or candour; disingenuously.
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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > disingenuousness > [adverb]
unsincerelya1575
insincerely1625
uningenuously1656
disingenuously1661
society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [adverb] > disingenuously or insincerely
unsincerelya1575
insincerely1625
uningenuously1656
disingenuously1661
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > insincerity > [adverb]
askancesc1450
hollowlya1547
from the teeth forward(s) or outward(s)1561
teeth outward(s)1561
unsincerelya1575
hollow1607
insincerely1625
fictly1677
with (one's) tongue in (one's) cheek1842
phonily1936
1625 R. Montagu Appello Cæsarem i. iv. 26 For dealing in the case so insincerely and calumniously in their Informations.
1692 J. Locke 3rd Let. for Toleration i, in Wks. (1727) II. 310 Speaking insincerely is to speak otherwise than one thinks, let what he says be true or false.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xii. 170 The few Protestants who remained in that part of the country joined in greeting him, and perhaps not insincerely.
1886 H. F. Lester Under Two Fig Trees 3 I told Katrina insincerely that it was of no consequence.
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