How to Use insincere in a Sentence

insincere

adjective

• He said he was sorry, but I could tell that he was being insincere.
• This is part of what makes the posts seem ridiculous or insincere.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 17 July 2022
• What felt most insincere, however, was the ending of the film.
  — Sam Reed, Glamour, 18 Aug. 2022
• To ask for them back following the service seems insincere and, frankly, tacky.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 16 June 2023
• Life is too short to hang out with people who dole out insincere heart blessings.
  — Leslie Anne Tarabella, AL.com, 10 Apr. 2018
• Image But a string of them, in our age of hyperbole, can sound insincere.
  — Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 22 July 2019
• Like saluting the flag or bowing your head in church, there is no cost to being insincere, but there is a cost to not going along.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 2 June 2017
• The work is done despite the distractions of the skeptics and the insincere promises of slippery politicians.
  — Kent Sepkowitz, CNN, 1 June 2021
• The director also knew that sometimes those types of shows can come off cheesy and insincere.
  — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 13 June 2020
• And that's what makes made Leonard's apology all the more insincere and cowardly.
  — Jesse Yomtov, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2021
• Gantz has left the door open to such an arrangement, but also dismissed the offers as insincere.
  — Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2020
• The claim is that conservative rhetoric about the courts and the Constitution is insincere.
  — Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review, 25 June 2024
• Beck was not a person who knew how to do something insincere with their person, with even their clothing, in order to charm.
  — Hazlitt, 26 July 2023
• But there are still battles to be fought, as having more women in the writers’ room or more diversity in the cast can be insincere.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 23 Mar. 2022
• Instead of stenciling insincere slogans in its end zones, the NFL ought to try taking care of its players.
  — Jim Souhan, Star Tribune, 5 June 2021
• Plane gives a clearly insincere apology and shades her teammate Amanda in the process.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 2 Feb. 2024
• Not that the couple -- and by extension the film -- is ever insincere about their vocation.
  — Thomas Page, CNN, 29 Jan. 2022
• Plenty of people online have started to call it out as insincere.
  — Katy Harrington, refinery29.com, 2 Dec. 2020
• While the justices might ultimately rule in favor of the order, the addition of the second case this week might offer them a more insincere way to nix it.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 15 Dec. 2022
• But many on the reservation felt her concerns to be insincere and the photo ops opportunistic.
  — Julian Brave Noisecat, Harper's magazine, 5 Dec. 2019
• If this all seems an exaggeration, a hometown kiss-up, a contrary and insincere piece of madness, well so be it.
  — Bernie Lincicome, chicagotribune.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• Hence, this package's count of 55 distinct games is insincere, because getting there requires a weird amount of legwork.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 15 Apr. 2020
• Tsikhanouskaya isn’t under any illusions that Lukashenko could be insincere.
  — Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic, 27 Dec. 2020
• The flip side of that is Gen Zers and millennials are also more likely to steer away from brands that don’t match their ethos or appear insincere with their endorsements.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 12 Feb. 2024
• Throughout, her thoughts are farther left than her actions, which will strike some readers as prudent and others as insincere.
  — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
• By the 1970s, tap seemed passé and out of place in musicals, unless someone like Bob Fosse used it as a symbol of razzle-dazzle, insincere and corrupt.
  — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 15 May 2018
• Ernst and her office are entitled to argue that Biden's words about the troops have been insufficient or insincere; that's a subjective claim beyond the scope of a fact check.
  — Daniel Dale, CNN, 3 Sep. 2021
• His wooing of the American working class was insincere.
  — Richard Cohen, The Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2017
• Plying the country’s backroads, the charismatic con men of literature prey on the gullibility of the faithful with insincere pitches for an overpriced product their targets can ill afford.
  — Nolan Finley, The Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2024
• Authenticity Coming across as fake and insincere can sink any branding campaign.
  — Edward Segal, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024