[ UK /ˌɪnsɪnsˈi‍ə/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnsɪnˈsɪɹ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. lacking sincerity
    their praise was extravagant and insincere
    a charming but thoroughly insincere woman
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How To Use insincere In A Sentence

  • Just inside the gates, an overalled gardener with a gentle face is poking insincerely at the dripping rhododendrons with a pair of secateurs.
  • Sweep on the base colour with a powder brush, blending outwards, then take a good-quality blusher brush with domed bristles try the Body Shop or Mac and grin insincerely so cheeks fatten in the middle. Beauty: Blushers
  • The monotonous words sounded fake and insincere, as if they were predetermined and he was only reciting the memorized lines in some sort of play.
  • Positive criticism is a good friend. Insincere flattery is a fake friend. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • she congratulated him somewhat insincerely
  • Supporters have learned to recognise those insincere comments for what they are worth and treat them accordingly.
  • their praise was extravagant and insincere
  • The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere
  • A woman who is so much exalted above what she can deserve, has reason to be terrified, were she to marry the complimenter (even could she suppose him so blinded by his passion as not to be absolutely insincere) to think of the height she must fall from in his opinion, when she has put it into his power to treat her but as what she is. Sir Charles Grandison
  • Courtesy towards them would be insincere, hypocritical, pointless. Times, Sunday Times
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