How to Use insincere in a Sentence

insincere

adjective
  • He said he was sorry, but I could tell that he was being insincere.
  • Don’t force trendy slang that feels insincere for your brand.
    — Noa Eshed, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
  • This is part of what makes the posts seem ridiculous or insincere.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 17 July 2022
  • Life is too short to hang out with people who dole out insincere heart blessings.
    — Leslie Anne Tarabella, AL.com, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Which is not to say that Amodei is being insincere.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2026
  • To ask for them back following the service seems insincere and, frankly, tacky.
    — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 16 June 2023
  • What felt most insincere, however, was the ending of the film.
    — Sam Reed, Glamour, 18 Aug. 2022
  • And so, open door policies rarely fail because leaders are insincere.
    — Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • The director also knew that sometimes those types of shows can come off cheesy and insincere.
    — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 13 June 2020
  • Image But a string of them, in our age of hyperbole, can sound insincere.
    — Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 22 July 2019
  • Plenty of people online have started to call it out as insincere.
    — Katy Harrington, refinery29.com, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Gantz has left the door open to such an arrangement, but also dismissed the offers as insincere.
    — Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • Some people might offer insincere assurances just to be liked.
    — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 21 Oct. 2020
  • Tsikhanouskaya isn’t under any illusions that Lukashenko could be insincere.
    — Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic, 27 Dec. 2020
  • One wrong look or insincere angle and the conversation can go sideways.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • And that's what makes made Leonard's apology all the more insincere and cowardly.
    — Jesse Yomtov, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • Not that the couple -- and by extension the film -- is ever insincere about their vocation.
    — Thomas Page, CNN, 29 Jan. 2022
  • Plane gives a clearly insincere apology and shades her teammate Amanda in the process.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Just don't glaze because that's heaping someone with excessive and insincere praise.
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 5 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • The work is done despite the distractions of the skeptics and the insincere promises of slippery politicians.
    — Kent Sepkowitz, CNN, 1 June 2021
  • Union officials suggested the effort was insincere and too little, too late.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Everyone else was various degrees of insincere or arch.
    — Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 7 June 2026
  • Everyone else was various degrees of insincere or arch.
    — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2026
  • The claim is that conservative rhetoric about the courts and the Constitution is insincere.
    — Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review, 25 June 2024
  • The kind of careerist and insincere quality of it just immediately seeps through.
    — Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 18 Nov. 2025

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