insincerity

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

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

The instant her voice broke off, ceasing to compel my attention, my belief, I felt the basic insincerity of what she had said.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

He enjoyed pulverizing the Ministry over their suffrage insincerities and displaying his contempt of the politician elected only for his money influence in borough, county, or in the subscription lists of the Chief Whip.

From Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement by Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston