insincerity

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

I’m not accusing “Everything Everywhere All at Once” of insincerity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 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

Players can smell insincerity like a shark seeking its prey.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 9, 2022

The forced heartiness of an old banker, his monocle dangling on a string, and my bright smile of insincerity: “No, not very lately; will you have another cigarette?”

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

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

I found the señor a handsome elderly gentleman, tall and lean, with Castilian dignity of manner, free and frank in all his communications, with no reserve, concealments, or insincerities.

From The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses by Froude, James Anthony