| 单词 | insincerity |
| 释义 | insincerity (once / 5084 pages) n When you're not telling the whole truth, you're demonstrating the quality of insincerity. You might detect a politician's insincerity during a speech, and decide to vote for his opponent, who seems more honest. If you can't stand insincerity, you'll bristle when someone compliments your haircut in a false, overly enthusiastic way — you can tell they're not being forthright with you. Sincerity, the complete absence of any pretense, comes from the Latin sincerus, "whole, clean, or pure," or "genuine." Insincerity adds the "not" prefix in-, resulting in a meaning of "not genuine." WORD FAMILYinsincerity: insincerities+/insincere: insincerely, insincerest, insincerity/sincere: insincere, sincerely, sincerer, sincerest, sincerity/sincerity: sincerities USAGE EXAMPLESBackpedaling on that point now reeks of insincerity. Slate(Dec 22, 2016) Perhaps we should be thankful this week for Donald Trump’s insincerity. Washington Post(Nov 23, 2016) And yet, among a huge portion of our population, this registers not as civility but as insincerity. The New Yorker(Nov 13, 2016) n the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper falseness, hollowness sincerity the quality of being open and truthful; not deceitful or hypocritical hypocrisy insincerity by virtue of pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not really have sanctimoniousness, sanctimonythe quality of being hypocritically devout fulsomeness, oiliness, oleaginousness, smarminess, unction, unctuousnesssmug self-serving earnestness untruthfulness the quality of being untruthful |
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