insincerity, falseness, hollowness
(noun) the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical
Source: WordNet® 3.1
insincerity (countable and uncountable, plural insincerities)
Property of being insincere, lacking sincerity or truthfulness.
• sincerity
Source: Wiktionary
In`sin*cer"i*ty, n. Etym: [Cf. F. insincérité.]
Definition: The quality of being insincere; want of sincerity, or of being in reality what one appears to be; dissimulation; hypocritical; deceitfulness; hollowness; untrustworthiness; as, the insincerity of a professed friend; the insincerity of professions of regard. What men call policy and knowledge of the world, is commonly no other thing than dissimulation and insincerity. Blair.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
16 May 2025
(adjective) marked by columniation having free columns in porticoes either at both ends or at both sides of a structure
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
