The ability to detect and understand insincerity is another basic social deficit that can occur with disease.

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The more ubiquitous this type of enforced bonhomie becomes, the more obvious its basic insincerity and falseness also becomes.

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Some football players who habitually point heavenward after a touchdown reek of insincerity.

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But the sentimentality in the script oozes insincerity, like it's something that's been grudgingly inserted to please a specific demographic.

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Yet what no list of words can get at is the new business insincerity: a phoney upping of the emotional ante.

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His often ham-handed attempts to win over whatever demographic he is targeting this week creates a stink of insincerity that trails him even when he actually means what he says.

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Both novels have a self-serving politicking clergyman (the Reverend Isaac Blakey has much of the unctuous insincerity of the Reverend Reginald Bacon), strong-willed and opinionated judges, politicised lawyers and macho bankers.

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Besides, there is a more worrying possibility than insincerity.

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Republicans, by contrast, project ambivalence and insincerity.

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