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Adjectives (6)
insincere
adj. lacking sincerity; "a charming but thoroughly insincere woman"; "their praise was extravagant and insincere"
Janus-faced, two-faced, deceitful, double-faced, double-tongued
adj. professing feelings or virtues one does not have; "hypocritical praise"
Fuzzynyms (79)
artificial, unreal
adj. contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial flowers"; "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond"; "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners"
mock
adj. constituting a copy or imitation of something; "boys in mock battle"
inauthentic, unauthentic, spurious
adj. intended to deceive; "a spurious work of art"
sham, pseudo, put on, assumed, feigned, fictitious, pretended
adj. adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty"
deceptive, delusory
adj. causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure"
misleading, deceitful, deceptive, fraudulent
adj. intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes"
empty
adj. having nothing inside; "an empty sphere"
pat, slick, glib
adj. having only superficial plausibility; "glib promises"; "a slick commercial"
flattering
adj. showing or representing to advantage; "a flattering color"
satin, slick, sleek, glossy, satiny, silken, silky
adj. having a smooth, gleaming surface; "glossy auburn hair"; "satiny gardenia petals"; "sleek black fur"; "silken eyelashes"; "silky skin"; "a silklike fabric"; "slick seals and otters"
artificial, contrived, stilted
adj. artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"
corrupt, crooked
adj. not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
dishonest, dishonorable, dishonourable
adj. deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive
corruptible, bribable, dishonest, venal
adj. capable of being corrupted; "corruptible judges"; "dishonest politicians"; "a purchasable senator"; "a venal police officer"
false
adj. not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality; "gave false testimony under oath"; "false tales of bravery"
sneaky, underhand, underhanded
adj. marked by deception; "achieved success in business only by underhand methods"
perfidious, treacherous
adj. tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans; "Punic faith"; "the perfidious Judas"; "the fiercest and most treacherous of foes"; "treacherous intrigues"
misleading, deceitful, deceptive, fraudulent
adj. intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes"
unfaithful, disloyal, faithless
adj. not true to duty or obligation or promises; "an unfaithful lover"
devious, scheming, calculating
adj. used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in the community"
slick, cunning, crafty, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily
adj. marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney"
renegade, recreant, treacherous, traitorous
adj. having deserted a cause or principle; "some provinces had proved recreant"; "renegade supporters of the usurper"
double-dealing, two-faced, ambidextrous, deceitful, duplicitous
adj. marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another; "she was a deceitful scheming little thing"- Israel Zangwill; "a double-dealing double agent"; "a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer"- W.M.Thackeray
Synonyms (27)
counterfeit, imitative
adj. not genuine; imitating something superior; "counterfeit emotion"; "counterfeit money"; "counterfeit works of art"; "a counterfeit prince"
dishonest, dishonorable, dishonourable
adj. deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive
artful, disingenuous
adj. not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness; "an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time"- David Cannadine; "a disingenuous excuse"
false
adj. not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality; "gave false testimony under oath"; "false tales of bravery"
unreal
adj. lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria; "ghosts and other unreal entities"; "unreal propaganda serving as news"
obsequious, bootlicking, fawning, sycophantic, toadyish
adj. attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
buttery, fulsome, smarmy, unctuous
adj. unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent"; "oleaginous hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the unctuous Uriah Heep"; "soapy compliments"
dissembling, dissimulating, dissimulative
adj. concealing under a false appearance with the intent to deceive; "dissimulative arts"
hollow, false
adj. deliberately deceptive; "hollow (or false) promises"; "false pretenses"
gilded, spurious, meretricious, specious
adj. based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"
Antonyms (21)
sincere
adj. open and genuine; not deceitful; "he was a good man, decent and sincere"; "felt sincere regret that they were leaving"; "sincere friendship"
dear, earnest, devout, heartfelt
adj. earnest; "one's dearest wish"; "devout wishes for their success"; "heartfelt condolences"
frank, genuine
adj. not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed; "genuine emotion"; "her interest in people was unfeigned"; "true grief"
genuine
adj. not fake or counterfeit; "a genuine Picasso"; "genuine leather"
real, existent
adj. being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory; "real objects"; "real people; not ghosts"; "a film based on real life"; "a real illness"; "real humility"; "Life is real! Life is earnest!"- Longfellow
serious
adj. concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities; "a serious student of history"; "a serious attempt to learn to ski"; "gave me a serious look"; "a serious young man"; "are you serious or joking?"; "Don't be so serious!"
earnest, sincere, in earnest
adj. characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions; "both sides were deeply in earnest, even passionate"; "an entirely sincere and cruel tyrant"; "a film with a solemn social message"
sincere
adj. open and genuine; not deceitful; "he was a good man, decent and sincere"; "felt sincere regret that they were leaving"; "sincere friendship"
honest, honorable, honourable
adj. not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent; "honest lawyers"; "honest reporting"; "an honest wage"; "honest weight"
honest
adj. without dissimulation; frank; "my honest opinion"
direct, straightforward
adj. not devious
hypocritical
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