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Meanings of insincerity in English

Portuguese
falsidade
Catalan
falsia
Spanish
falsedad

The quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical.

      falsidade
      Usage of insincerity in English
      1
      Astute he certainly was, but I suspected some insincerity throughout our talk.
      Hero: the life and legend of lawrence of arabia
      2
      The wickedness and insincerity of the enemy appear from the following considerations:
      A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal, on the Affairs of North A...
      3
      There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.
      The Principles of Success in Literature
      4
      There he was insincere; but it was a pardonable insincerity, after all.
      The Shadow of the Rope
      5
      Society is the builder of fourflushers, the generator of insincerity-falsehoodand rottenness.
      Evening Round-Up / More Good Stuff Like Pep
      6
      He spoke very gently, and there was no insincerity in his gentleness.
      The Reef
      7
      No faintest tinge of insincerity mars the perfect kindliness of her tone.
      Molly Bawn
      8
      But all politics is hypocrisy, an edifice of pretence, insincerity and deviousness.
      The Guardian
      9
      To her insincerity now seemed to be the direct contradiction of love.
      December Love
      10
      In Ireland there is no religious dissension, but there is religious insincerity.
      Principles of Freedom
      11
      Her flayed nerves and desolated heart plagued her with suspicions of insincerity.
      Deadham Hard: A Romance
      12
      Artificiality and insincerity were blotted out by the solemnity of the occasion.
      Odd John
      13
      The writer's insincerity was fully revealed by one passage of the letter.
      The Count's Millions
      14
      But was not insincerity a natural result of the un-religion of Confucius?
      The Chinese Classics: with a translation, critical and exegetica...
      15
      He entreated her to put aside such insincerity as unworthy of her.
      Red Pottage
      16
      Esthetic inadequacy should by no means be taken as synonymous with insincerity.
      Rashi
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      Translations for insincerity
      Portuguese
      falsidade
      Spanish
      falsedad
      Insincerity through the time
      Insincerity across language varieties
      United Kingdom
      Common
      United States of America
      Less common