Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Inside parliament and out, he was a flamboyant self-advertiser who dripped superlatives, ornate insincerities and exotic effulgence.

From The Guardian • Jul. 17, 2013

Whatever his insincerities turn out to be, this won't be one of them.

From The Guardian • Sep. 29, 2010

The speech made listening newspapermen, jaded with the stale insincerities of convention orators, look at each other: here was something different.

From Time Magazine Archive

Having delivered himself of various polite insincerities, and having told Mrs. Hubbard that he would order coffee to be brought to her, Poirot was able to take his leave accompanied by his two friends.

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

Regrets of all sorts, of course; explanatory insincerities about stringent obligations elsewhere; even specific allegations of expected guests; false imputation of exacting claims to the Earl.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend