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UK
/ˌɪnsɪnsˈɛɹɪti/
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NOUN
- the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical
How To Use insincerity In A Sentence
- Strip away the insincerity and the hype from the music business and see it for what it is, a jungle.
- What seems to plague both of these films and so many like them is their patent insincerity.
- Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor. Sigmund Freud
- Too many superlatives lend a note of insincerity.
- Systematic insincerity on the part of the ostensible purveyors of information and leaders of opinion may be deplored by persons who stickle for truth and pin their hopes of social salvation on the spread of accurate information. Boing Boing
- The conclusion is obvious; the imprimatur was a momentary insincerity for which there must have been specific, exterior reasons. Great Tew, Continued
- No insincerity or hypocrisy to be found in that lady, no siree! Supporter says Clinton getting desperate
- The insincerity of the democrats in achieving a bipartisan health care reform is evident in their "threat" to ram it through congress w/o a single republican vote. Boustany rebuttal: start with what we 'agree upon'
- Never mind that as he reads from the monitor, Springer radiates smarmy insincerity.
- Yet it did not enter into the composition of his religious faith, and this shows that his religious faith, though entirely free from suspicion of insincerity or ostentatious assumption, was like deism in so many cases, whether rationalistic or emotional, a kind of gratuitously adopted superfluity, not the satisfaction of a profound inner craving and resistless spiritual necessity. Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)