insincerity
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Still, when confronted with his own words by Senate Democrats, he denied it all with the insincerity of the cheating narrator of Shaggy and RikRok's 2000 hit song.
From Salon • Jan. 31, 2025
It reeks — not of fish, but of insincerity.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 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
I found this hardly comforting, and wondered if there was not some virtue in the quality of insincerity.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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