insincerity
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As the interview progressed, Vance’s vaunted media savvy quickly morphed into something far more grating: a combination of condescension and profound insincerity.
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026
It reeks — not of fish, but of insincerity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2023
But the most villainous entity they encounter is a duplicitous schemer played with oleaginous insincerity by Hugh Grant.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 28, 2023
For historians, it is also a rare glimpse at the darks arts of diplomacy in action: secrecy, smiling insincerity and disinformation were evidently as current then as they are today.
From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2022
Lord Asriel couldn’t help enjoying her barefaced insincerity.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
Inside parliament and out, he was a flamboyant self-advertiser who dripped superlatives, ornate insincerities and exotic effulgence.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2013
Whatever his insincerities turn out to be, this won't be one of them.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 29, 2010
The speech made listening newspapermen, jaded with the stale insincerities of convention orators, look at each other: here was something different.
From Time Magazine Archive
Having delivered himself of various polite insincerities, and having told Mrs. Hubbard that he would order coffee to be brought to her, Poirot was able to take his leave accompanied by his two friends.
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
Pepys, with utter unconsciousness, is sincere even in his insincerities.
From Among Famous Books by John Kelman
Vocabulary lists containing insincerity
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