insincerely
Americanadverb
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
And so, after insincerely proclaiming that he found her testimony credible, he switched gears and went after Kavanaugh's accuser Christine Blasey Ford:
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2018
There were barbs of spite in her bright, childish voice when she asked, insincerely, “Sleep well?”
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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