insincerity

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Insincerity of that kind is not lost on our fellow citizen by adoption, who is only anxious to fall in with the ways of the country; and especially is it not lost on his boy.

From A Ten Year War An Account of The Battle with The Slum in New York by Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)

Insincerity in life may be mean, despicable, and indicate a petty nature; but in art insincerity is death.

From The Speaker, No. 5: Volume II, Issue 1 December, 1906. by Pearson, Paul M. (Paul Martin)

Insincerity and injustice may seem the two ends, while I occupy the straight betwixt two—and I should not like you to doubt how this may be!

From The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 by Browning, Robert

Insincerity, disingenuousness, shiftiness, trickery, duplicity, chicanery, evasion, intrigue, suppressio veri, suggestio falsi, fraud, mendacity, treachery, hypocrisy, cant,—their name is Legion.

From What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular by Holmes, Edmond

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.

From The Principles of Success in Literature by Lewes, George Henry