Synonyms: insincere
Definition: lacking sincerity
Usage: a charming but thoroughly insincere woman; their praise was extravagant and insincere
Similar words: fawning, obsequious, bootlicking, sycophantic, toadyish
Definition: attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
Similar words: unctuous, oily, oleaginous, fulsome, smarmy, soapy, buttery
Definition: unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech
Usage: buttery praise; gave him a fulsome introduction; an oily sycophantic press agent; oleaginous hypocrisy; smarmy self-importance; the unctuous Uriah Heep; soapy compliments
Similar words: dissimulative
Definition: concealing under a false appearance with the intent to deceive
Usage: dissimulative arts
Similar words: false
Definition: deliberately deceptive
Usage: false pretenses
Similar words: feigned
Definition: not genuine
Usage: feigned sympathy
Similar words: gilded, meretricious, specious
Definition: based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
Usage: the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility; meretricious praise; a meretricious argument
Similar words: hypocritical
Definition: professing feelings or virtues one does not have
Usage: hypocritical praise
Similar words: plausible
Definition: given to or characterized by presenting specious arguments
Usage: a plausible liar