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US
/sɪnˈsɛɹəti/
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[ UK /sɪnsˈɛɹɪti/ ]
[ UK /sɪnsˈɛɹɪti/ ]
NOUN
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the quality of being open and truthful; not deceitful or hypocritical
they demanded some proof of my sincerity
his sincerity inspired belief -
the trait of being serious
a lack of solemnity is not necessarily a lack of seriousness -
a quality of naturalness and simplicity
the simple sincerity of folk songs - an earnest and sincere feeling
How To Use sincerity In A Sentence
- At the back door, out of inexorable necessity, in developed and convincingness and sincerity laid down by all authorities on the art of the short story. Confession
- His dark eyes stared back, full of rawness, honesty and uncompromising sincerity.
- ‘Maria Maria Maria’ is simply gorgeous - a dark, reverb-soaked slab of despondency with a lyrical combination of absurdism and sincerity that could only have come from Merritt.
- In contrast to the image of the poet as the orderer, the craftsman, the poets of the _Fragments_ have a kind of artlessness (to us a very studied one, to be sure) that gave them an aura of sincerity and honesty. Fragments of Ancient Poetry
- Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor. Sigmund Freud
- Hence to entire sincerity there belongs ceaselessness. The doctrine of the mean
- Humour and melancholy, sincerity and irony are as balanced as a health freak's diet.
- One way to show sincerity is to make your positive reinforcement as specific as possible. Christianity Today
- I stand here today humbled works on antithesis, a putting of terms into opposition with each other, whereby stand, apart from connoting the witness stand and stealing some of its sincerity, erects an uprightness to contrast with the lowness of humbled, from the Latin humus, meaning earth. BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES
- We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery. Dejan Stojanovic