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the act or fact of being honest or direct
His sincerity and loyalty made him a good friend.
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Recent Examples of sincerity
Joy Randolph, Ke Huy Quan and Daniel Kaluuya nailed the assignment in recent years, giving speeches that struck an endearing balance of humor and sincerity, but always with a dash of the unexpected.
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Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 8 Mar. 2026
Foligno always skirted the line between earnest and corny, but nobody ever doubted his sincerity.
—Scott Powers, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026
The company’s chief Ted Sarandos tried to assuage their concerns, maintaining that Netflix would honor its commitments, but many exhibitors doubted his sincerity.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 2 Mar. 2026
Hite argued, not always with analytical grace but with passionate sincerity, for a more egalitarian and empathetic world in and out of the bedroom.
—Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
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Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 8 Mar. 2026
Foligno always skirted the line between earnest and corny, but nobody ever doubted his sincerity.
—Scott Powers, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026
The company’s chief Ted Sarandos tried to assuage their concerns, maintaining that Netflix would honor its commitments, but many exhibitors doubted his sincerity.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 2 Mar. 2026
Hite argued, not always with analytical grace but with passionate sincerity, for a more egalitarian and empathetic world in and out of the bedroom.
—Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sincerity
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Playing the title role of a linguistics professor who faces changes and prepares her family for what's to come as the disease takes hold, Moore navigates the character arc with honesty and heart-tugging empathy.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
10 Mar. 2026
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Being a good role model shows your child how to behave with kindness, honesty, and respect.—
Barrie Gillies,
Parents,
9 Mar. 2026
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Donate today to preserve the quality and integrity of local journalism.—
Bradley Gitz,
Arkansas Online,
16 Mar. 2026
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Rather, the luxurious material softens and molds to your feet over time without losing its structural integrity.—
Sophie Dodd,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Mar. 2026
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Her emotional frankness has also translated into measurable commercial impact.—
Amy Francombe,
Vogue,
4 Mar. 2026
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The cast rises to the challenge of Churchill’s rapid-fire, often overlapping dialogue, with comedic highlights including Pope Joan’s coarse frankness and Dull Gret’s unexpected interjections.—
Emily McClanathan,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Feb. 2026
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Fortune spoke with six people who have invested in Anthropic to get a sense of how this key constituency is feeling about the situation, and found that opinions were not unified despite the company’s longstanding forthrightness about its values.—
Jessica Mathews,
Fortune,
5 Mar. 2026
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WalletHub has studied deferred interest since 2012, periodically flagging retailers that offer the loans and rating their financing offers on transparency and forthrightness.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
28 Nov. 2025
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Mary Gaitskill is particularly good at this ideal combination of straightforwardness and pithiness.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Mar. 2026
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Her question, in Lipe-Smith’s inquisitive piccolo of a voice, is heartbreaking in its blend of straightforwardness and desperate desire, as is her mother’s wavering response.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
1 Oct. 2025
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Gilbert’s colloquial style, once a source of great pleasure, has tipped into new territory—an ingenuousness that blends guru and disciple, mother and child.—
Jia Tolentino,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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Still, Dunk believes in himself, like any good hero, and people are drawn to his guilelessness.—
Sarah Larson,
New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2026
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But there’s a guilelessness to everything Bella does, a trust in the universe and an insatiable curiosity about humanity.—
Katie Rife,
Vulture,
9 Nov. 2025
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Audiences and critics alike have praised the character’s honesty and candor.—
Helen Carefoot,
Flow Space,
14 Mar. 2026
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Meanwhile, nuclear weapons did not shock the world’s leaders into a new era of peace and candor, as Bohr had hoped.—
Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
11 Mar. 2026
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“Sincerity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sincerity. Accessed 16 Mar. 2026.
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