Synonyms of the word

insincere

• adj. Not genuinely meaning what has been expressed; not sincere; artificial.
• adj. Not serious.

artful

• adj. Performed with, or characterized by, art or skill.
• adj. Artificial; imitative.
• adj. Using or exhibiting much art, skill, or contrivance; dexterous; skillful.
• adj. Cunning; disposed to cunning indirectness of dealing; crafty; as, an artful boy. [The usual sense.].

bootlicking

• v. present participle of bootlick.
• n. servile behaviour.

buttery

• n. A room for keeping food or beverages; a storeroom.
• n. (Britain) A room in a university where snacks are sold.
• adj. Made with or tasting of butter.
• adj. Resembling butter in some way, such as color or texture.
• adj. (informal) Marked by insincere flattery; obsequious.

counterfeit

• adj. False, especially of money; intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine.
• adj. Inauthentic.
• adj. Assuming the appearance of something; deceitful; hypocritical.
• n. A non-genuine article; a fake.
• n. One who counterfeits; a counterfeiter.
• n. (obsolete) That which resembles another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart.
• n. (obsolete) An impostor; a cheat.
• v. (transitive) To falsely produce what appears to be official or valid; to produce a forged copy of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To produce a faithful copy of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To feign; to mimic.
• v. (transitive, poker, usually "be counterfeited") Of a turn or river card, to invalidate a player's hand…

dishonest

• adj. Not honest.
• adj. Interfering with honesty.
• adj. (obsolete) Dishonourable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd.
• adj. (obsolete) Dishonoured; disgraced; disfigured.

dishonorable

• adj. Without honor, or causing dishonor.
• adj. Lacking respect or ethical principles.

disingenuous

• adj. Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; fake or deceptive.
• adj. Not ingenuous; not frank or open; uncandid; unworthily or meanly artful.
• adj. Assuming a pose of naïveté to make a point or for deception.

dissembling

• n. The action of the verb dissemble.
• v. present participle of dissemble.

dissimulating

• v. present participle of dissimulate.

false

• adj. Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
• adj. Based on factually incorrect premises.
• adj. Spurious, artificial.
• adj. (logic) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
• adj. Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
• adj. Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
• adj. Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
• adj. Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
• adj. (music) Out of tune.
• adv. Not truly; not honestly; falsely.
• n. One of two options on a true-or-false test.

fawning

• v. present participle of fawn.
• n. servile flattery.

feigned

• adj. Being a pretense, a counterfeit, or something false or fraudulent.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of feign.

fulsome

• adj. Offensive to good taste, tactless, overzealous, excessive.
• adj. Excessively flattering (connoting insincerity).
• adj. Marked by fullness; abundant; copious.
• adj. Fully developed, mature.

gilded

• v. simple past tense and past participle of gild.
• adj. Having the color or quality of gold.
• adj. Made of gold or covered by a thin layer of gold.
• adj. Having a falsely pleasant appearance; sugarcoated.

hollow

• n. A small valley between mountains.
• n. A sunken area or unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.
• n. (US) A sunken area.
• n. (figuratively) A feeling of emptiness.
• v. (transitive) to make a hole in something; to excavate.
• adj. (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.
• adj. (of a sound) Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
• adj. (figuratively) Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.
• adj. (figuratively) Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.
• adj. concave; gaunt; sunken.
• adj. (gymnastics) pertaining to hollow body position.
• adv. (colloquial) Completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.
• v. To urge or call by shouting; to hollo.
• interj. Alternative form of hollo.

hypocritical

• adj. Characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite.

imitative

• adj. Imitating; copying; not original.
• adj. Modelled after another thing.

meretricious

• adj. Tastelessly gaudy; superficially attractive but having in reality no value or substance; falsely alluring.
• adj. (law) Involving unlawful sexual connection or lack of consent by at least one party (said of a romantic…
• adj. (obsolete) Of, or relating to prostitutes or prostitution.

obsequious

• adj. (archaic) Obedient, compliant with someone else's orders or wishes.
• adj. Excessively eager and attentive to please or to obey all instructions; fawning, subservient, servile.
• adj. (obsolete) Of or pertaining to obsequies, funereal.

oily

• adj. Relating to or resembling oil.
• adj. Covered with or containing oil.
• adj. (figuratively) Excessively friendly or polite but insincere.
• n. A marble with an oily lustre.
• n. (in the plural, informal) Oilskins. (waterproof garment).

oleaginous

• adj. Oily, greasy.
• adj. (of manner or speech) Falsely or affectedly earnest; persuasively suave.

plausible

• adj. Seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; credible.
• adj. Obtaining approbation; specifically pleasing; apparently right; specious.
• adj. (obsolete) Worthy of being applauded; praiseworthy; commendable; ready.

smarmy

• adj. Falsely earnest, smug, or ingratiating.

soapy

• adj. Resembling soap.
• adj. Resembling a soap opera.
• adj. Full of soap.
• adj. Covered in soap.

specious

• adj. Seemingly well-reasoned, plausible or true, but actually fallacious.
• adj. Who or that uses fallacious but deceptively plausible arguments, deceitful.
• adj. Having an attractive appearance intended to generate a favorable response; deceptively attractive.
• adj. (obsolete) Beautiful, pleasing to look at.

sycophantic

• adj. Obsequious, flattering, toadying.

toadyish

• adj. Sycophantic; fawning.

unctuous

• adj. (of a liquid or substance) Oily or greasy.
• adj. (of a wine, coffee, etc.) Rich, lush, intense, with layers of concentrated, soft, velvety flavor.
• adj. (by extension, of a person) Profusely polite, especially unpleasantly so and insincerely earnest.

unreal

• adj. fake; not real.
• adj. (slang) larger or more fantastic than typical of real life.