insincerity

The film’s own director, however, is a sharp and clever social critic who investigates insincerity.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2025

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

For humility in any organization to be effective, the people at the top must be viewed as acting in good faith when they reward achievement and accept personal blame, not exhibiting weakness or insincerity.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2022

Players can smell insincerity like a shark seeking its prey.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 9, 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

Some felt ill at ease in her presence; her proud, dark eyes seemed to detect every little false grace and affectation, all paltry little insincerities seemed to be revealed to her.

From Love Works Wonders A Novel by Charlotte M. Brame