insincerity

As the interview progressed, Vance’s vaunted media savvy quickly morphed into something far more grating: a combination of condescension and profound insincerity.

From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026

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

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

And men who are truly in earnest about faith and life, and who are perplexed and distressed by the contradictions and insincerities that meet them, must often be moved as he was.

From Sermons at Rugby by John Percival