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insincerity

[in-sin-ser-i-tee] / ˌɪn sɪnˈsɛr ɪ ti /


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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

She could hear so clearly now the insincerity that had always lurked beneath, the hollow, false assurances.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

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 made bold to think that it exposed Cliffe's exaggerations and insincerities neatly, and perhaps decisively.

From The Marriage of William Ashe by Mrs. Humphry Ward


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