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• n  the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical

• When people like Dobson profess "concern" for the welfare of children, while simultaneously attacking those very children's parents and family structures, their insincerity becomes .
• We've learned to peel them apart with tweezers, find the insincerity and self-interest: If I caused any offense (you thin-skinned morons), I regret it.
• By this means we are to prove to the world the insincerity of Russian pretensions and thus gain a great propaganda advantage.

• falseness
• hollowness

• sincerity

News & Articles

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• Out of the hole, the land of ‘tend and befriend’ awaits
  News flash. People got sufficiently fed up with the culture of insincerity, the lack of ping in the process and decided to attend the small and the quotidian.
  June 12, 2013 - National Catholic Reporter

Quotes

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• Tony La Russa in Hartford Courant
  The first time I hear insincerity,La Russa told reporters, "I'll start swinging this fungo."
• Tendai Biti in Reuters
  They have taken our passports. This is a reflection of their insincerity. They want to talk to us yet they behave like hooligans,Movement for Democratic Change Secretary-General Tendai Biti told reporters.
• George Orwell in City Journal
  The great enemy of clear language is insincerity,Orwell wrote. "When there is a gap between one's real and declared aims, one turns instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms."