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• The number one personality trait I hate is hypocrisy. Why can't you be consistent!?From the entry trait
• The reporter cornered the politician by pointing out the hypocrisy of his position on mandatory sentencing, in light of the politician's own actions in court.From the entry corner
• As declared governmental policy during the French revolution, “terrorism” had at least the advantage of avoiding hypocrisy.2015, Chibli Mallat, Philosophy of Nonviolence. From the entry disingenuine
• For the institutionals, hypocrisy consists of failing to live up to one's standards.1999, Roy F. Baumeister, The Self in Social Psychology. From the entry institutional
• The seeds of a climateric insurrection against the hypocrisy of cultural norms.1991 May 4, Mary Dowd, “Risky Business”, in Gay Community News, page 7. From the entry climacteric
• The hand-wringing hypocrisy and the pant-wetting that we are seeing over someone criticising the police correctly is amazing.2023 November 9, Daniel Boffey, quoting Ian Paisley Jr, “Braverman clarifies Northern Ireland comments amid angry criticism”, in The…. From the entry hand wringing
• That’s why all the hypocrisy surrounding George H.W.2018 December 11, Gil Troy, “The constructive hypocrisy when eulogizing Bush was OK”, in The Jerusalem Post. From the entry Bushophilia
• The accused, quick to his wit, replied that to indict someone for lexiphanicism is the surest way to confirm one’s hypocrisy.2014 April 11, Noah B. Pisner, “Big words and their use on campus”, in Harvard Magazine, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Magazine Inc., →OCLC…. From the entry lexiphanicism
• I don't concern myself with ongoing NeoCon and uberleft hypocrisy.2005 November 16, Michael Wise, “Re: Bill O'Reilly IS right! The majority in S.F. ARE BAD AMERICANS!”, in ba.politics (Usenet). From the entry uberleft
• What hypocrites will be confronted with, in return for their hypocrisy, is a grievesome torment, both in this world and beyond.2004, Harun Yahya, The Hypocrite According To The Qur’an. From the entry grievesome
• How can one explain the hypocrisy, chop logic and outright lying now being mustered daily in defence of hunting with hounds?2000 December 28, David McKie, “Special report: the hunting debate”, in The Guardian, retrieved 06 Jun 2008. From the entry chop logic
• The hypocrisy was in the Roe decision.1994 May 30, Ralph D. Taite, “Re: Responsibility”, in talk.abortion (Usenet). From the entry fetii
• This very chapter reports the findings of an interdisciplinary cross‑cultural inquiry into the constitutive moments of routinized sincere hypocrisy, socioculturally normalized (engineered) as apologetism.2026, Vlatan Sutanovac, “Language Games as Mind Games”, in Vlatan Sutanovac, editor, Unlearning Languages that Control the Mind. From the entry apologetism
• Another pointed out the hypocrisy in the original argument, sarcastically noting, "Amazing how all of these 'free-thinking alpha males' reach the same conclusions on everything."2024 September 2, Ellsworth Toohey, “Musk boosts 4chan claim that women are incapable of critical thinking”, in Boing Boing. From the entry sarcastically
• "A consciousness of the rectitude of his life raised him far above the Jesuitical arts of hypocrisy," one of his Congregational friends circumventively explained.1957, William Storrs Lee, The Yankees of Connecticut. From the entry circumventively
• This overpowering sense of the “tremendosity” of human “problems” is one of the manifestations of that hypocrisy which has ever characterized the domineering class.1908, Marcus Hitch, “Comments”, in Goethe’s Faust: A Fragment of Socialist Criticism, Chicago, Ill.: Charles H[ope] Kerr & Company, page 74. From the entry tremendosity
• Living in Germany, I see it as my human responsibility to call it out for its one-sidedness, its hypocrisy and its acquiesence in the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.2023 October 23, Lana Bastašić, “I grew up in Bosnia, amid fear and hatred of Muslims. Now I see Germany’s mistakes over Gaza”, in The…. From the entry one-sidedness
• To begin, we return to Will: “What started as a critical reading of a children's book became a social justice 'racial equity' purity test full of hypocrisy”.2019, Jessica S. Mitchell, Erin N. Vaughn, Participatory Literacy Practices for P-12 Classrooms in the Digital Age, page 211. From the entry purity test
• They factored in social hypocrisy, but on the whole still considered that things would have changed by the time they got out, attitudes would have matured.1998, Will Self, Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, pages 217–218. From the entry noncery
• He has sat beside her in chapel and shared her hymn-book.” “But that may be the merest hypocrisy,” said Miss Murchison, rather warmly, for she was militantly rationalist.1930, Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison. From the entry rationalist
• The same sort of blatant hypocrisy manifest in a tabloid paper notorious for its daily combination of a topless female centerfold with articles condemning the "immorality" of "poufs" and "queers."1988 August 20, Chris Reed, “The English 'Strip-tique'”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 6, page 16. From the entry pouf
• With the main crisis is linked the scene in which the murderess, casting off the mask of her hypocrisy, openly exults in her deed, defends herself, and defies her subjects.1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VI. Orestea. I: Agamemnon”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 158. From the entry murderess

Meaning of hypocrisy

1. noun The contrivance of a false appearance of virtue or goodness, while concealing real character or inclinations, especially with respect to religious and moral beliefs; hence in general sense, dissimulation, pretence, sham.
2. noun The claim or pretense of having beliefs, standards, qualities, behaviours, virtues, motivations, etc. which one does not really have.
3. noun The practice of engaging in the same behaviour or activity for which one criticises another; moral self-contradiction whereby the behavior of one or more people belies their own claimed or implied possession of certain beliefs, standards or virtues.

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Questions about hypocrisy in a sentence

How do you use hypocrisy in a sentence?

Hypocrisy is used as a noun. For example: “He condemned the hypocrisy of politicians who broke their own laws.”

What is a short sentence with hypocrisy?

“charge of hypocrisy”

What does hypocrisy mean?

Hypocrisy means the contrivance of a false appearance of virtue or goodness, while concealing real character or inclinations, especially with respect to religious and moral beliefs; hence in general sense, dissimulation, pretence, sham.