How to Use insincere in a Sentence

insincere

adjective
Definition of insincerenext
Synonyms for insincerenext
  • He said he was sorry, but I could tell that he was being insincere.
  • This is part of what makes the posts seem ridiculous or insincere.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 17 July 2022
  • What felt most insincere, however, was the ending of the film.
    — Sam Reed, Glamour, 18 Aug. 2022
  • To ask for them back following the service seems insincere and, frankly, tacky.
    — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 16 June 2023
  • Life is too short to hang out with people who dole out insincere heart blessings.
    — Leslie Anne Tarabella, AL.com, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Image But a string of them, in our age of hyperbole, can sound insincere.
    — Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 22 July 2019
  • Like saluting the flag or bowing your head in church, there is no cost to being insincere, but there is a cost to not going along.
    — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 2 June 2017
  • The work is done despite the distractions of the skeptics and the insincere promises of slippery politicians.
    — Kent Sepkowitz, CNN, 1 June 2021
  • The director also knew that sometimes those types of shows can come off cheesy and insincere.
    — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 13 June 2020
  • And that's what makes made Leonard's apology all the more insincere and cowardly.
    — Jesse Yomtov, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Gantz has left the door open to such an arrangement, but also dismissed the offers as insincere.
    — Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2020
  • The claim is that conservative rhetoric about the courts and the Constitution is insincere.
    — Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review, 25 June 2024
  • Beck was not a person who knew how to do something insincere with their person, with even their clothing, in order to charm.
    — Hazlitt, 26 July 2023
  • But there are still battles to be fought, as having more women in the writers’ room or more diversity in the cast can be insincere.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Instead of stenciling insincere slogans in its end zones, the NFL ought to try taking care of its players.
    — Jim Souhan, Star Tribune, 5 June 2021
  • Plane gives a clearly insincere apology and shades her teammate Amanda in the process.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Not that the couple -- and by extension the film -- is ever insincere about their vocation.
    — Thomas Page, CNN, 29 Jan. 2022
  • Plenty of people online have started to call it out as insincere.
    — Katy Harrington, refinery29.com, 2 Dec. 2020
  • While the justices might ultimately rule in favor of the order, the addition of the second case this week might offer them a more insincere way to nix it.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 15 Dec. 2022
  • But many on the reservation felt her concerns to be insincere and the photo ops opportunistic.
    — Julian Brave Noisecat, Harper's magazine, 5 Dec. 2019
  • If this all seems an exaggeration, a hometown kiss-up, a contrary and insincere piece of madness, well so be it.
    — Bernie Lincicome, chicagotribune.com, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Hence, this package's count of 55 distinct games is insincere, because getting there requires a weird amount of legwork.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 15 Apr. 2020
  • Tsikhanouskaya isn’t under any illusions that Lukashenko could be insincere.
    — Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic, 27 Dec. 2020
  • The flip side of that is Gen Zers and millennials are also more likely to steer away from brands that don’t match their ethos or appear insincere with their endorsements.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Throughout, her thoughts are farther left than her actions, which will strike some readers as prudent and others as insincere.
    — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
  • By the 1970s, tap seemed passé and out of place in musicals, unless someone like Bob Fosse used it as a symbol of razzle-dazzle, insincere and corrupt.
    — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 15 May 2018
  • Ernst and her office are entitled to argue that Biden's words about the troops have been insufficient or insincere; that's a subjective claim beyond the scope of a fact check.
    — Daniel Dale, CNN, 3 Sep. 2021
  • His wooing of the American working class was insincere.
    — Richard Cohen, The Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2017
  • People of color have heard after-the-fact apologies like that for many years, some completely sincere, some wholly insincere.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 July 2022
  • Her first term as Vice President mirrored her presidential campaign – both were marred by bizarre, insincere moments and tales of a toxic workplace.
    — Matt Fleming, Orange County Register, 15 July 2024

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