as in deception
the pretending of having virtues, principles, or beliefs that one in fact does not have
the hypocrisy of people who claim to care about the environment but ride around in gas-guzzlers
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Recent Examples of hypocrisy
However, just days after the dust seemed to settle, Kendrick is facing backlash for what some are calling hypocrisy.
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Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 1 May 2025
This is the hypocrisy that has left higher education so vulnerable to political attack.
—Matthew Scogin, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
But a groundswell of protest art was answering the call with a new kind of ardent feeling that damned the false piety and hypocrisy of homophobic Christian doctrine.
—Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2025
This becomes fuel for a spiraling breakdown, for Taylor and for all the other women, full of DMs and text-thread images shown on-camera as evidence of various hypocrisies.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 19 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for hypocrisy
Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 1 May 2025
This is the hypocrisy that has left higher education so vulnerable to political attack.
—Matthew Scogin, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
But a groundswell of protest art was answering the call with a new kind of ardent feeling that damned the false piety and hypocrisy of homophobic Christian doctrine.
—Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2025
This becomes fuel for a spiraling breakdown, for Taylor and for all the other women, full of DMs and text-thread images shown on-camera as evidence of various hypocrisies.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 19 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for hypocrisy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hypocrisy
Noun
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But these seductions or deceptions are canceled when the work confronts us with the photographic records of the performative procedure itself—and not only by making the photograph an integral component, the dialectical complement to the material sculptural production.—
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
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He’s got some deception on the puck and does a good job holding onto it to wait for secondary options to open up, but slows the game down too much.—
Scott Wheeler,
New York Times,
29 May 2025
Noun
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None of these spring explorations of sisterly deceit and self-deception has been able to surpass Apple TV+’s Bad Sisters as the recent genre peak.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
28 May 2025
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Starring Tom Cruise, the movies are loaded with action, deceit and globe-spanning adventures – everything a good spy film should be.—
Keith Langston,
People.com,
24 May 2025
Noun
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From our review: Tessa Van den Broeck, a newcomer, plays Julie with zero affectation.—
The New York Times,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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No fussy affectations, just a deliberate tamping down of his more charismatic qualities.—
A.A. Dowd,
Rolling Stone,
25 Apr. 2025
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“Hypocrisy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hypocrisy. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.
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