What's a good word for a person that comes off as a genial, kind, good person but is completely inauthentic and disgusting to the core? Not just wearing a mask or a con artist, I need a good word for it.
I was trying to think of one because I thought of the Pope and his penchant for talking about corpophilia, but I want to use it for some other things. Thanks bros.
This is an interesting vbulletiny forum. Do you know any others? Wanting to check out different ones than I've been (on life support)
Camden Watson
Snake.
Robert Johnson
This is an interesting query, because it presumes an aptitude to detect in an other what one is rarely if ever able to detect in oneself. The word 'inauthentic' is good, but with the added moral dimension youre looking for the only adequate word is 'evil,' which rings silly in 2017. Youre looking for a less silly word to substitute? Perhaps 'foul' or 'noxious' or 'reprobate' or 'corrupt'?
Nolan Wilson
None of these convey that 'wolf in sheep's clothing' aspect youre both trying to convey and not convey (not wearing a mask) at the same time. (You) want a word that describes an authentic inauthentic person- not easy! t. same user
Ethan Cook
David Foster Wallace
Jaxon Price
Evil, foul, noxious, reprobate, and corrupt are generally noticeable as 'symptom', and not what I'm looking for at all. 'Duplicitous' was a better one pointed out earlier I missed, but those were terrible examples given the description.
Caleb Cruz
>I was trying to think of one because I thought of the Pope aaand thread hid
Noah Hernandez
Janus, duh.
James Collins
>maus interpreters oh man he got me
Bentley Foster
made this a year ago
Adrian Anderson
>corpophilia
Michael Morris
Funny unctuous also means oily, and the first thing I thought of when you described the person was slimy and insincere but im sure you thought of those words
Sometimes the best word is like, really fucking obvious
Nolan James
What's wrong with inauthenticity? Maybe our cultural preoccupation with being 4 real is what makes all interactions painful and fake.
Anyway, "unctuous" is good. Conveys the salesman-y sense of what you're going for.
Camden Clark
A fake
Cameron Barnes
Yeah, I tried to correct that. But duplicitous fails because of its sense of telling more than one person the same thing- both person a and person b that (you) love only them, for instance. And unctious (oily) fails because the emphasis is on 'smooth talker'-- a type of salesman, politician. Don't for a second believe youre somehow less blind. Youre not.
Jack Cooper
Lacking integrity? Being a doormat/wet towel? Someone who is kind and hospitable but who's opinions, thoughts and judgement change like the wind depending on who that person is talking to? A weasel? A manipulative pleaser too weak of character to serve his own interests?
Thomas Murphy
I'm a different user by the way
Anthony Powell
The request is too specific. You're going to get a range superlatives kek.
Cameron Jenkins
Soft laugh for bugmen but this is hysterical. Just love and pay attention to the people that matter for you, or whatever your shit is.
Jayden Reyes
>literally unable to read an entire sentence before frothing at the mouth
David Nelson
i would call it a jew.
Ethan Rivera
Specious. best word i can find for you. it seems perfect though.
Nolan Gray
>full of unction; especially : revealing or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality Jesus, this word is essential for describing half the modern culture
Joseph Moore
A high-functioning psychopath. You just described one perfectly.
Noah Phillips
"Shallow" or something like that, I think I know what you're talking about.
Someone who acts in a kind or friendly manner but behaves that way to make themselves feel good and increase their social standing while not feeling anywhere near the false emotion they express. Not actively sociopathic or trying to deceive people, just a normie who believes being excessively nice is always good regardless of whether or not their positive attitude is a fabrication with no real depth. The kind of person who makes small meaningless gestures and says "well I did everything I could" and says shit like "everyone is beautiful," "believe in yourself," "I love you no matter who you are," and other false inane meaningless shit that is said purely because it feels good to say.
It isn't a mask, since people can actively convince themselves that their words held value even if those words hold no representation of their actions or the real world. Since society today revolves around maximizing pleasure a lot of people legitimately believe the false image they fabricate of themselves as someone open-minded and kind while they regurgitate buzzwords and popular views onto others without ever thinking or sacrificing anything of value for another person.
If that's what you're thinking of I can probably find a few words for it.
Angel Ross
"not a mask" is the part that knocks off sociopath from what he's looking for I think. Not a person incapable of caring about others or even someone being consciously manipulative, just instinctively raising their social value through false sympathy, easily justified internally by something along the lines of "just being nice." Idunno if he's looking for people who are self-aware about it or what though.
Joseph Davis
Holographic
Brody Reed
In fact, even better, Maldacenan.
Austin Fisher
no one will get that joke
Easton Myers
Found it! It was whitewashed tombs. Thank you Jesus, /thread