insincerity

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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

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

Lord Asriel couldn’t help enjoying her barefaced insincerity.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman