Example Sentences

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

From The Guardian • Mar. 7, 2020

Yet modeling good behavior, even if insincerely, has a way of producing more.

From Washington Post • Dec. 20, 2019

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’s  any shot that has your partners, sincerely or insincerely, going, “Awww.”

From New York Times • May 27, 2012

I tried to say it as insincerely as I could get away with and half-smiled as I spoke.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson