insincerity

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

INSINCER'ITY, noun Dissimulation; want of sincerity or of being in reality what one appears to be; hypocrisy; used of persons. 1. Deceitfulness; hollowness; used of things; as the insincerity of professions.
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