[ noun ] the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical <noun.attribute>
Insincerity \In`sin*cer"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. insinc['e]rit['e].] The quality of being insincere; lack of sincerity, or of being in reality what one appears to be; dissimulation; hypocritical; deceitfulness; hollowness; untrustworthiness; as, the insincerity of a professed friend; the insincerity of professions of regard.
What men call policy and knowledge of the world, is commonly no other thing than dissimulation and insincerity. --Blair.