THESAURUS
insincere
Machiavellian, Tartuffian, Tartuffish, adulatory, affected, ambidextrous, apparently sound, artful, artificial, bland, blandishing, blarneying, buttery, cajoling, calculating, canting, casuistic, colorable, complimentary, courtierly, courtly, crafty, crooked, cunning, deceitful, deceptive, dishonest, disingenuous, dissembling, double, double-dealing, duplicitous, empty, evasive, fair-spoken, faithless, fallacious, false, falsehearted, fawning, fine-spoken, flattering, forsworn, foxy, fulsome, goody, goody-goody, gushing, histrionic, holier-than-thou, hollow, honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, honeyed, hypocritical, illusive, insinuating, jesuitic, la-di-da, lying, maniere, mannered, mealymouthed, mendacious, obsequious, oily, oily-tongued, overacted, overdone, overrefined, oversubtle, perfidious, perjured, pharisaic, philosophistic, pietistic, pious, plausible, pretentious, sanctified, sanctimonious, scheming, self-righteous, shifty, slick, slimy, slippery, slobbery, sly, smarmy, smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, sniveling, soapy, soft-soaping, sophistic, sophistical, specious, stagy, sycophantic, theatrical, tongue in cheek, treacherous, tricky, two-faced, uncandid, unctuous, underhanded, unfrank, ungenuine, unnatural, unserious, unsincere, untruthful, vulpine, wheedling, wily
ROGET THESAURUS
insincere
Affectation
N
affectation, affectedness, acting a part, pretense boasting, charlatanism, quackery, shallow profundity, pretension, airs, pedantry, purism, precisianism, euphuism, teratology, mannerism, simagree, grimace, conceit, foppery, dandyism, man millinery, coxcombry, puppyism, stiffness, formality, buckram, prudery, demureness, coquetry, mock modesty, minauderie, sentimentalism, mauvais honte, false shame, affector, performer, actor, pedant, pedagogue, doctrinaire, purist, euphuist, mannerist, grimacier, lump of affectation, precieuse ridicule, bas bleu, blue stocking, poetaster, prig, charlatan, petit maitre, flatterer, coquette, prude, puritan, affected, full of affectation, pretentious, pedantic, stilted, stagy, theatrical, big-sounding, ad captandum, canting,
insincere, not natural, unnatural, self-conscious, maniere, artificial, overwrought, overdone, overacted, euphuist, stiff, starch, formal, prim, smug, demure, tire a quatre epingles, quakerish, puritanical, prudish, pragmatical, priggish, conceited, coxcomical, foppish, dandified, finical, finikin, mincing, simpering, namby-pamby, sentimental, conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.