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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Insincerity \In`sin*cer"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. insinc['e]rit['e].] The quality of being insincere; want of sincerity, or of being in reality what one appears to be dissimulation; hypocritical; deceitfulness; hollowness; untrustworthiness; as the insincerity of a professed friend; the insincerity of professions of regard. What men call policy and knowledge of the world, is commonly no other thing than dissimulation and insincerity. --Blair. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: insincerity n : the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical [syn: {falseness}] [ant: {sincerity}]
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