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hypocrisy
[ hi-pok-ruh-see ]
noun
plural hypocrisies.
- a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.
- a pretense of having some desirable or publicly approved attitude.
- an act or instance of hypocrisy.
hypocrisy
/ ɪˈɒəɪ /
noun
- the practice of professing standards, beliefs, etc, contrary to one's real character or actual behaviour, esp the pretence of virtue and piety
- an act or instance of this
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- p··dz۾· noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hypocrisy1
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See duplicity.
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Social commentator and civil rights activist Laura Miti accused the US embassy of "hypocrisy", while also labelling the new law "tyrannical".
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You did have somebody like Mark Twain write really perceptively about the hypocrisies of that age.
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Aldrete says she's come forward now "not to shame their past," but because of "the hypocrisy of it all."
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All that makes their position look less like a principled stand against judicial activism, and more like partisan hypocrisy.
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But it's not quite right to attribute this to hypocrisy.
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