sincere

Preposition: with

• regard: We should be very sincere with regard to what we understand or not yet understand.

Modifies a noun

• condolence: Our sincere condolences go out to the members of the deceased's family " .
• apology: Our sincere apologies to Sarah of Bermuda who ordered a gift for her father's birthday in the UK.
• gratitude: We wish to express our sincere gratitude to all of them.
• thank: Our sincere thanks to the sponsors of Bexley in Bloom 2006.
• sympathy: Please accept my sincere sympathy in the loss of your Pepper.
• congratulations: Again my sincere congratulations to everyone involved within the business, all the individuals are aware of the Boardâs tremendous gratitude.

Modifying Another Word

• utterly: He had a warm & engaging stage presence and came across utterly sincere in his enjoyment of every moment on stage.
• however: However sincere the protests, they cannot be allowed to stand in the way of rational argument.
• perfectly: I submit that a discourse may be willfully ' distorted ' for perfectly sincere, conscious and rational reasons.
• deeply: Most surpising is that " Moulin Rouge " has a solid, deeply sincere emotional core.
• equally: Others held equally sincere views that the Union's exclusion rules were right.
• entirely: But it is important to remember that we seldom had any cases that were not entirely sincere.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: Tony Blair's definition of peace was eloquent and at the time, seemed sincere.
• sound: I had received telephone calls before offering information but I had never attended simply because the callers just did not sound sincere.
• look: When what to my wondering eyes should appear, But a presidential candidate, who looked oddly sincere.
• appear: Galloway appears utterly sincere in a disturbingly certain way.
• remain: Paul was fully aware that faith was not itself an eternal guarantee of salvation unless it remained sincere.
• believe: I would rather be paid the compliment of being believed sincere.