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inside information about the successful bidder. 5 internal,
interior; arranged, prearranged: The police think it was an
inside job.
--adv. 6 fundamentally, basically, at bottom, by nature:
Despite her gruff exterior, inside she is quite sentimental. 7
in prison, in jail or Brit also gaol, imprisoned, incarcerated,
Slang Brit in quod, US up the river: He'll be inside for
another five years.
--prep. 8 within, US inside of: Because of rain, the party was
held inside the building.
insight n. perception, percipience, sensitivity, perspicacity,
perceptiveness, perspicaciousness, discernment, acuteness,
acuity, acumen, sharpness, understanding, judgement,
comprehension, vision: Chambers has brought his considerable
insight to bear on this complex problem.
insignificant
adj. paltry, trifling, petty, inconsiderable, inconsequential,
trivial, unimportant, non-essential, minor, negligible,
nugatory, unessential, niggling, puny, insubstantial,
unsubstantial , Colloq piddling: These insignificant
differences can be ignored. What you and I might do with our
lives is, in the larger sense, insignificant.
insincere adj. hypocritical, dishonest, dissembling, deceptive,
disingenuous, deceitful, untruthful, false, artificial,
ungenuine, treacherous, perfidious, faithless, double-dealing,
duplicitous, two-faced, Janus-faced, lying, mendacious, sly,
Machiavellian, cunning, crafty, slick, foxy, vulpine, wily,
artful, evasive, shifty, time-serving, unctuous, slimy,
slippery, tricky, underhanded, crooked, Colloq phoney or US also
phony: From the first act I thought Iago insincere.
insinuate v. 1 impute, suggest, hint, intimate, imply, whisper, indicate;
convey, signify: They insinuated that she married me for my
money. 2 insert (oneself), inject (oneself), worm or work or
inveigle or manoeuvre (oneself or one's way); infiltrate,
intrude: She insinuated herself into our group uninvited. 3
inject, infuse, instil, introduce: Wild imaginings began to
insinuate themselves into my mind.