Example Sentences

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Therefore Miss Manners believes that the fear that telling your daughter will cause him to act insincerely is an unreasonable one.

From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2022

Her joyousness and enthusiasm were cast as somehow both insincerely pandering and cringingly over-earnest.

From The Guardian • Mar. 7, 2020

It can also be said that the trolls’ memes and posts weren’t proffered insincerely: in a world where nothing is sincere, nothing is insincere, either.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 18, 2018

It is a reference to the way artists casually — perhaps insincerely — compliment one another’s efforts.

From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2018

There were barbs of spite in her bright, childish voice when she asked, insincerely, “Sleep well?”

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor