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

“I’m sorry to’ve kept you waiting,” Selena said insincerely, “but I had to wait for Mother to wake up....Hello, Eric.”

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger