`You have it,' she said (a smiling vision of shameless insincerity ).
Nicola Barker BEHINDLINGS (2002)
O'Grady said, with conversational insincerity, that it was a fine place.
NULL DARE CALL IT TREASON (2002)
Kevin gave me an admiring smile, all expensive dentistry and insincerity.
Val McDermid DEAD BEAT (2002)
Equal parts rugged and debonair, but with a lurking tinge of insincerity somewhere in the curl of his lips and the sharp spark in his eyes.
James W. Hall OFF THE CHART (2002)
Quotations
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively tolong words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out inkGeorge OrwellPolitics and the English Language
Synonyms of 'insincerity'
deceitfulness, hypocrisy, pretence, dishonesty
More Synonyms of insincerity
(noun)
Too many superlatives lend a note of insincerity.
Synonyms
deceitfulness
hypocrisy
He accused newspapers of hypocrisy in their treatment of the story.
pretence
dishonesty
She accused the government of dishonesty and incompetence.
lip service
duplicity
He was guilty of duplicity in his private dealings.
deviousness
perfidy (literary)
He cited many examples to illustrate the perfidy of his adversaries.
mendacity
an astonishing display of cowardice and mendacity
dissimulation
faithlessness
disingenuousness
untruthfulness
Opposites
honesty
,
sincerity
,
directness
,
faithfulness
,
truthfulness
Quotation
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink [George Orwell – Politics and the English Language]
Additional synonyms
in the sense of dishonesty
She accused the government of dishonesty and incompetence.
Synonyms
deceit,
fraud,
corruption,
cheating,
graft (informal),
treachery,
trickery,
criminality,
duplicity,
falsehood,
chicanery,
falsity,
sharp practice,
perfidy (literary),
mendacity,
fraudulence,
crookedness,
wiliness,
unscrupulousness,
improbity
in the sense of dissimulation
Synonyms
pretence,
deception,
hypocrisy,
sham,
deceit,
feigning,
duplicity,
concealment,
play-acting,
double-dealing,
dissembling,
wile
in the sense of duplicity
Definition
deceitful behaviour
He was guilty of duplicity in his private dealings.