Definition of Insincerity
Insincerity
The quality of being insincere; want of sincerity, or of being in reality what one appears to be; dissimulation; hypocritical; deceitfulness; hollowness; untrustworthiness; as, the insincerity of a professed friend; the insincerity of professions of regard.
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Insincerity Quotations
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
George Orwell
Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.
George Henry Lewes
Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.
William Shenstone
I like the enthusiasm but not the insincerity of Los Angeles.
Brenda Blethyn
This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.
Lionel Barrymore
Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
Vicki Baum
That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.
Benny Hill
Insincerity Translations
insincerity in German is Unaufrichtigkeit
insincerity in Spanish is falta de sinceridad
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