How to Use hypocrisy in a Sentence
hypocrisy
noun
- Teenagers often have a keen awareness of their parents' hypocrisies.
- When his private letters were made public, they revealed his hypocrisy.
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The hypocrisy is too much, and some donors have had enough.
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Neetu Arnold,
National Review,
20 Oct. 2023
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Is their hypocrisy one of the most frustrating parts of all this?
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Brian Davids,
The Hollywood Reporter,
26 Feb. 2023
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That’s the true, the ultimate hypocrisy of this council.
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Laura Johnston,
cleveland,
20 July 2023
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For a white youth to accept the brutal hypocrisies of the way things are is a rite of passage.
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Darryl Pinckney,
The New York Review of Books,
16 Mar. 2023
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Yeah, the hypocrisy on it is -- is speak Washington there.
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ABC News,
13 Aug. 2023
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That said, the whole debate is suffused with hypocrisy.
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David Meyer,
Fortune,
2 Mar. 2023
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The show isn’t making new points about the hypocrisy of for-profit worship.
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Alison Herman,
Variety,
16 June 2023
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Charges of hypocrisy against the West are often accurate and fair.
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Matias Spektor,
Foreign Affairs,
21 July 2023
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But there’s still a lesson to be learned from the ongoing hypocrisy.
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Ct Jones,
Rolling Stone,
18 Feb. 2023
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And so, in the moist confines of his conflicted young mind, the spores of hypocrisy find fertile soil.
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Ron Charles,
Washington Post,
29 Nov. 2022
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However, at around $120 for a pair of leggings, many were quick to point out the brand’s hypocrisy.
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Orianna Rosa Royle,
Fortune,
3 Jan. 2024
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That the United States is not a member of the court and has sanctioned its leaders adds to claims of hypocrisy.
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Adam Taylor,
Washington Post,
27 July 2023
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The move is made because the English are tired of the hypocrisy in the sport, the shamateurism that plagues high-class tennis.
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Town & Country,
8 July 2023
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Each party is willing to accept a degree of hypocrisy on the part of the other.
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Louis Menand,
The New Yorker,
30 Jan. 2023
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The tour’s hypocrisy insults the fans and players who have been its core supporters.
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WSJ,
15 June 2023
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But what makes Babbitt a Babbitt is his pompous hypocrisy.
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Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Dec. 2023
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This is one of many examples of the utter hypocrisy of the Western powers.
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Stuart Miller,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Nov. 2023
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The lyrics are now a phrase commonly used to call out hypocrisies and double standards.
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Ryan Morik,
Fox News,
4 Mar. 2023
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And Germany has been long overdue in facing this hypocrisy.
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Lev Golinkin,
CNN,
31 Jan. 2023
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Coyle said the video illustrates the department’s hypocrisy.
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Janelle Griffith,
NBC News,
9 Nov. 2023
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Williams has also exposed the hypocrisy of Hanson and her campaign.
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David Gilbert,
WIRED,
7 Oct. 2023
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If hypocrisy was an Olympic event the Republicans would be gold medalists.
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Jeffrey Schweers,
Orlando Sentinel,
18 Apr. 2023
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People flocked to comments on the 2016 post, calling out Ogles’s hypocrisy in light of Monday’s shooting.
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Tori Otten,
The New Republic,
29 Mar. 2023
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Through his career, Elliot Page has had a front-row seat to Hollywood hypocrisy.
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Vulture,
6 June 2023
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Some other Fox News stars fit into the same dark corner of deception and hypocrisy.
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George Skelton,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2023
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Reacting to the possible dismissal of the charge, Christie accused the president and Democrats of hypocrisy.
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Ken Tran,
USA TODAY,
9 July 2023
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There’s been a lot of hypocrisy in the state to have this law on the books for almost 30 years but there are no consequences if the instruction isn’t provided.
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Lori Rozsa,
Washington Post,
6 Oct. 2023
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Leaders of the global South have long accused Western countries of hypocrisy, and their complaints seem to grow louder by the day.
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Matias Spektor,
Foreign Affairs,
21 July 2023
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