insincerus

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Ἀλλ᾽ ὑπ᾽ ἐλπίδων ἄνδρας τὸ κέρδος πολλάκις διώλεσεν → But the profit-motive has destroyed many people in their hope for gain

Sophocles, Antigone, 221-2

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

in-sincērus: a, um, adj.,
I not genuine, not pure, adulterated, spoiled; not honest or candid, insincere (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
I Lit.: cruor, Verg. G. 4, 285: acies, imperfect, Prud. Ham. 4.—
II Trop.: philosophus, Gell. 5, 3, 7: oblatio, Ambros. de Cain et Abel, 2, 6, § 18; id. in Psa. 118, Serm. 11, § 20.