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Sentence Examples White rapacity, hypocrisy, and cant are hard to stomach, but so are cannibalism, headhunting, and the refined torture of captives. However, critics note these same states run equally addictive national lotteries and accuse them of hypocrisy. He is too sweet, too nice, too inoffensive for the dig at hypocrisy to hit home, and many of the jokes lack the audacious punch of old. The result is a savage satire on hypocrisy, truth-telling and how we can control our brains, but not our hearts. Not only did Jesus scandalize these leaders by the company he kept, he went so far as to openly confront their hypocrisy. His writings varied from incoherent screeds to astute examinations of government hypocrisy. Shame and hypocrisy are not ideal ways to deal with philanderers and small-time mashers. He confronts his contemporaries with masked reflections of their own superficiality and hypocrisy. To be sure, the Times appears at least to recognize the potential for hypocrisy or self-contradiction in its statements. There is nothing wrong with courtesy but if it is made into an industry or profession it carries the danger of hypocrisy or self-delusion. French hypocrisy and their inflated self-opinion is nothing new to most people, especially their neighbours. The other tabloids will gleefully join in, in a frenzy of self-righteous hypocrisy. They feel righteous indignation but are not aware that others see it as self-righteousness, double standards and hypocrisy. He could spot hypocrisy, pomposity, smugness, snobbery, tomfoolery and turpitude from miles away. So, on top of everything else, there seems to be a case of political hypocrisy here. Both in Europe and in China, the social order of feudal society showed the brutality, benightedness and hypocrisy of the feudal ruling classes. As a satirist, the writer is unafraid of drawing aside the drapes of hypocrisy and sham that seem to safeguard middle-class ethics. And so I think those are the emotions, the shame and guilt and the feeling of hypocrisy. Faced with the shameless hypocrisy of their Big Lie, the advocates resorted to petty little lies. He regarded the philanthropic schemes of the day as characterized by sentimentality, short-sightedness, and hypocrisy. Show More Sentences Behind all its smug hypocrisy and sickly sentimentality are the sinister outlines of the class war. I refer to a judge who's put himself at grave risk of blackmail, entrapment, compromise and hypocrisy. For a start, we can expose the hypocrisy of Murdoch and his media mouthpieces. Under the previous Tory government, it became accepted that politics was all about hypocrisy and corruption, otherwise known as sleaze. A person will be judged unholy if he does not have money, and hypocrisy will be accepted as virtue. A figure of fun, his name was jeered for his hypocrisy, booed for his betrayal. Religious hypocrisy and atrocities committed in the name of faiths underlie much of the history of the world. Max Blumental does a great job of unpacking the deep core of hypocrisy that reverberates through the Family Research Council. He is beset both by theological doubts and by distress at the narrowness and hypocrisy of his colleagues and congregations. His work is critical of bourgeois values, particularly sexual repression, and exposes hypocrisy. Politicians and papers responded to the documentary with nauseating hypocrisy. To allege unwariness or bewilderment in order to explain an act of love is hypocrisy, weakness and stupidity. There were accusations of breathtaking hypocrisy over the issue of branch stacking. But the chorus of whines about interference in the internal affairs of the country is 90 per cent arrant hypocrisy. There was a time that I found your comments amusing, however recently you have degenerated into farce and hypocrisy. Her main strength is her hypocrisy, which she uses to bully the other teams into giving up luxuries that she herself uses daily. His kindness and moral generosity I found uplifting in today's squalid world of denigration, spin and hypocrisy. It's time for audiences to call them out on their hypocrisy and demand better representations of diversity. No matter how tightly you wrap yourself in the flag the stench of untramelled cant and hypocrisy always emerges. Maybe it is time to reject cant and hypocrisy, shed this sham of political correctness. Show More Sentences The common factor among the marchers was a rejection of cant, lies and hypocrisy. Its satirical swipes at hypocrisy and cant make it a topical work amid the political spin of today. They will be exposed for things called hypocrisy and cant, and they will not get away with it. The hypocrisy and plain hard-heartedness of this administration beggars belief. The painful fact is that no one expects much of them any more beyond good food, bribery and honeyed hypocrisy. Please spare us any more of your bad manners, chutzpah, irony and hypocrisy! He has really started something with his swingeing attack on the hypocrisy of the media. There has certainly been too much misguided media management, some hypocrisy and even sleaze. There's almost as much hypocrisy in the present government as there is in the church. Chao's hostility to politicians stems from what he considers their intrinsic hypocrisy. Here is a fine example of journalistic hypocrisy, and you can never know that this is a sin I am guilty of. The way society views the whole drug scene is riddled with hypocrisy and double standards. Dislike of the clergy, accused of hypocrisy and worse, was of ancient origins. I myself have had problems with American politics and hypocrisy since I was a small child. The words we hear from our leaders are a daily diet of lies, spin and hypocrisy. The fact that she is an impostor makes an incredibly ironic point about hypocrisy. Something must be done about this, if we are not to continue in our habitual posture of concerned hypocrisy. This book also does a tremendous job of exposing the corruption and hypocrisy of big business. The slaughter of men, women and children has been concealed by military and religious hypocrisy. As for the authorities, surely there's a level of hypocrisy or humbug at the least. Show More Sentences There's a lot of hypocrisy from the government about crime and what is happening in the inner cities. There is an important point to be made about so-called sexual hypocrisy in government. However, as with the infant formula companies, the industry stands accused of hypocrisy. Worship in truth is the antidote to idolatry, while worship in spirit is the antidote to hypocrisy. H wrote about the pangs of love, the hypocrisy of the rich, the perils of marriage, the transience of happiness and many other topics. It is a fairy-tale kingdom without class warfare, racial violence, or religious hypocrisy. His condemnation of violence and wealth, of government repression and church hypocrisy, brought him administrative pinpricks and excommunication. They could perfectly understand its conveying an impression of hypocrisy on the paper's part. It would be remiss not to include the hypocrisy of police breaking the law themselves, while simultaneously enforcing it with an iron fist. Stanhope sees his openness as a counter to society's hypocrisy about such subjects. I can't wait to enter the fray again, to challenge ignorance, to mock hypocrisy, to defeat a lie. That women can freely cross-dress but men cannot is breathtaking hypocrisy. I have never stopped being angry at hypocrisy and hate and stupidity and cupidity, either. In other words, you don't need to be a government insider to detect official deception and hypocrisy. That means demanding that they answer for their lies, hypocrisy and profane behavior, just as much as we must answer for ours. My point isn't the usual hypocrisy gotcha, though that's certainly worth pointing out. If we spent money on hypocrisy detectors as well as anthrax detectors, they would be buzzing. Maybe, in a truly punky and wanton act of hypocrisy, she might even return to the company. Finally the arts are now emancipated from the stifling cloak of puritanical hypocrisy. For centuries, despite forays into excesses and hypocrisy, the Church acted as a guardian of private and public morality. Show More Sentences This sort of talk immediately opens itself up to the accusation of disingenuousness and hypocrisy. They exude the sweet, slightly rotten smell of hypocrisy as everyone takes a position of high dudgeon and righteousness. Although quickly buried by the media, they paint a graphic picture of fraud, duplicity and hypocrisy. The truth is he did not, which further exposes his hypocrisy and irresponsibility. Not surprisingly, this attempt to square the circle involved a large dose of hypocrisy and double-talk. Only there is a slight reek of hypocrisy in the old tales of Oxonian elitism. Since we'd done a fair amount of sinning together, her efforts came across to me as hypocrisy and I cannot abide a hypocrite. I knew Labour Ministers lie a bit, but accusing two ministers in one week of hypocrisy is a bit much. He wants out of the hypocrisy of his ordination, but he has no place to go. We are individuals as well as social beings, and open to accusations of selfishness and hypocrisy. The Boston Globe's Jeff Jacoby has also commented on the rank hypocrisy that is being demonstrated here. Social hypocrisy, and the sexual double standard, are central Wildean targets, and he is merciless in his attacks on them. I wish they made these things able to withstand the hypocrisy of partisan politics. Unfortunately, the conservative argument against gay marriage often reeks of hypocrisy. If it's wrong to extol virtue, it should be wrong to condemn a vice like hypocrisy. At the same time, the artist alludes to the real world, having it out with hypocrisy and duplicity. I think all this self-righteous morality is just jealousy with a halo and hypocrisy. She produced a tape which she says lays bare the hypocrisy of a famous self-righteous director whom she depicts as a libidinous villain. It merely exposed the rottenness and the hypocrisy of the establishment he hated anyway. Accusations of hypocrisy and disingenuousness have been lobbed at both for doing it with seeming ease. Show More Sentences The hypocrisy of the Victorian era often gets a lambasting in this book. But their selectivity in applying scripture shows the depth of their hypocrisy. They had accepted all that world of sexual repression, had accepted its rules, the hypocrisy of the myth of female virginity and, needless to say, they had accepted authority. Under the shiny surface there's homelessness, ignorance, insane people on the streets, hypocrisy, a certain coldness and strong individualism in people in general. His evisceration of the hypocrisy and cynicism of Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schroeder was irresistible. Your anonymous writer speaks about the hypocrisy within the Church and then applauds a man for his views which totally contradict the faith that he claims to follow. For Powell to try and lecture on democracy is the height of hypocrisy. The film succeeds a little, if without imagination, in assailing the assumptions and hypocrisy of privileged white folks, but the film indulges its own presuppositions. They should not deny it now or try, in my absence from Parliament on important public business, to get away with a total, undiluted piece of hypocrisy. Another showed the contemptible hypocrisy of the man, whose lustful glances at other women, as he walks with his wife, changes to anger as another man targets his wife. To separate theory and practice too much leads to hypocrisy or inactivity. Certainly, Democrats don't own morality, either, but Republicans can't act sanctimoniously on the one hand while brushing aside hypocrisy on the other. The other day I wrote a column about Republican hypocrisy on Syria, singling out Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz for special criticism. As it happens, hypocrisy on matters of animals does inflame me also. The flip side is the hypocrisy of not admitting the U.S. need for cheap labor, which contradicts its schizoid defensive posture of trying to stem the tide. He shows us the hypocrisy where in some contexts these very words are socially acceptable and at other times they are verboten. But Goldman also observed that often the perpetrator of the hypocrisy is accidentally aided by his critics. The deep-seated hatred can be understood, but this plastic thing on the surface, this hypocrisy is disagreeable, and we try to puncture that in the play. Inspired by his hero H. L. Mencken, always on the lookout for hypocrisy, Thurman found it in the uneven way that color prejudice is applied to dark-skinned women. It is a fragile thing, this tactic of outing to expose hypocrisy. Show More Sentences I support free speech but I also believe that debates must be open and honest and that politicians must avoid hypocrisy, double talk and hidden agendas. Doesn't it smack of the most hideous hypocrisy and moral weakness? But subterfuge will only contribute to an ecclesial culture of hypocrisy. There is more than enough trouble, pain, self-righteousness and hypocrisy. Their disputes were chiefly political, and mainly involved the Soviet Union and the United States hurling accusations of hypocrisy against each other. But not satisfied with mere hypocrisy, they also add this time-worn lie. That is not hypocrisy or betrayal, but simply rationality and good sense. If all this were only hypocrisy, Gingrich might legitimately expect voters to shrug off his lapses of decency and humanity. But hypocrisy, duplicity and deception are recognized skills of diplomacy. He was known for his kindness, his candor, and his dislike of hypocrisy. To be a great power with far-flung interests of different natures is to invite hypocrisy. He essentially created that culture, riddled as it was with hypocrisy. And, again, the situation is ripe with all sorts of hypocrisy. Add to that high rates of illiteracy, the hypocrisy of the governmental media, the weakness of civil society and state suppression of the opposition parties. This question highlights some of the hypocrisy currently afflicting Republican partisans on the issue of infidelity. He had a fine eye for moral hypocrisy, and I know that a glaring example of it would not have escaped his notice. Moderate Republicans have been among those most attuned to the perils of such hypocrisy. Rather, he dishes up a seemingly endless stream of examples of pettiness, irritation, hypocrisy and awkwardness. The hypocrisy here is monumental, even by traditional foreign-policy standards of baloney. Sometimes her bluntness felt painful, but her lack of hypocrisy was inspiring. Show More Sentences Amidst all of this build-up around the royal wedding, a note of hypocrisy was struck in recent days. Then, in a dazzling display of hypocrisy, the senator spoke out. Rather we read Mark because he is an expert at exposing sham, pretension, and hypocrisy, and because he was the greatest American humorist of the 19th century. No longer the torch-bearer of iconoclasm, the scourge of intellectual hypocrisy, I had become instead mere target practice for Banner Wavers Anonymous. The events in Kashmir lay bare the hypocrisy of the U.S. war on terrorism. He uses Moliere's play to make a film inside a film about hypocrisy. Yes, of course, it is threaded through with hypocrisy and outright duplicity. It is rank intellectual dishonesty and hypocrisy on your part. Issa has also been accused of cronyism and hypocrisy as a member of the House. And so he returns to the paparazzi and the predictable billets-doux slipped under the door by self-justifying journalists who have hypocrisy tattooed on their foreheads. The mere mention of morality reeks of back-to-basics hypocrisy. That puritanical attitude often carries with it a lot of hypocrisy. Bold satirical initiatives have unmasked hypocrisy, corruption, and brutality in dictatorships across the world. Yet each feels terrible about his own hypocrisy and accompanying appetites for what he professedly hates, and so looks to express angst on the cheap. Bauer, mother of a child with Down syndrome, underscored one aspect of that hypocrisy in an October 22 syndicated column. We have fallen into the hypocrisy of the priest and the Levite whom Jesus described in the parable of the good Samaritan. In these circumstances, major US media coverage rarely extends to delving into deviational irony or spotlighting White House hypocrisy. Paul Theroux on how the whole affair reveals our smugness and hypocrisy. His pantywaist deportment leads some to suspect hypocrisy, assuming that Bachmann is himself closeted. At the same time, the news text ironizes the local government for hypocrisy towards the central government. Show More Sentences A mere debunker would take perverse satisfaction in exposing America's sin and hypocrisy. The cant and hypocrisy from a Johnny-come-lately who was parachuted into his seat to replace an ineffectual MP is amazing. When his private letters were made public, they revealed his hypocrisy. How can one explain the hypocrisy, chop logic and outright lying now being mustered daily in defence of hunting with hounds? If hypocrisy was the English vice, as the French critic Taine declared, then it had soon become naturalized in the United States. What hypocrites will be confronted with, in return for their hypocrisy, is a grievesome torment, both in this world and beyond. The entrance of Tiberius in the first chapters of the first book is dominated by the hypocrisy of the new emperor and his courtiers. Blake also disliked Reynolds' apparent humility, which he held to be a form of hypocrisy. Social hypocrisy in many societies over history had led to a double standard when considering sin committed by men versus sin committed by women. There was an element of hypocrisy in the condemnations by the bash-patriots, because the Elamites have similar views to them on the Cyprob. For some time Zwingli had accused mendicant orders of hypocrisy and demanded their abolition in order to support the truly poor. And so the critique smacks of the same tribal hypocrisy he abhors. It's easy to sound off about abortion in Northern Ireland while England takes in the refugees from our sexual hypocrisy. We know a lot of people around us who would resort to whataboutery or hypocrisy when it is upon them to take a stand. In a world of increasing hypocrisy, give me a straight-from-the-shoulder character like him any day. Betjeman, besides loving England so much, also hated England and the intolerance of our priggery and hypocrisy. If hypocrisy was a military offence, he would be on permanent jankers. Because of his opposition to aristocracy and slavery in his major writings, he is accused of hypocrisy and racism, or of caring only for the liberty of English capitalists. 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. Gradually, hypocrisy was hunted down, often by fan rivalry and less convincingly by journalists who lectured about bigotry but stuffily believed they were always right. Show More Sentences Hypocrisy among the Democrats is never a shock, but this is really something. Hypocrisy is the pretension to qualities which one does not possess, or, more cognately, the putting forward of a false appearance of virtue or religion. Hypocrisy became a major topic in English political history in the early 18th century. Examples from Classical Literature His eyes, round and full and steady, taxed her with falsehood, with hypocrisy. He heaved a deep sigh at his own hypocrisy, and the Gabbai sighed in response. There need be no conceit and no hypocrisy all this time in the mind of the deaf-mute. The universal desire was to skin and film the ulcerous place with adulation and hypocrisy. Thinking of it, she cast her weepers from her, and walked about the room, scorning the hypocrisy of her dress. There was not a deal of hypocrisy in his nature, and now he did not attempt the part of Samaritan. It is this sordid cause and the unctious hypocrisy which makes this crime unparalleled in its horror. An era which had canonised hypocrisy, so that to seem to be respectable was to be. What kin' o' a usefulness can that be that has hypocrisy for its fundation? A religion violently imposed from without as a state-religion naturally tends to hypocrisy and externalism. But your hypocrisy and your mummery shall serve you to little purpose. Not improbably he will stigmatise it as an act of officious hypocrisy. Charlatanism, hypocrisy, kitsch, and crass consumerism are staple targets of Houellebecq. Weren't they getting grown-up enough to drop this inside-out hypocrisy? The pro-Russian activists who oppose the oligarch fascism in Ukraine are aware of this hypocrisy in Russia. Before hypocrisy or oppression his glances were as mimic lightning. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. His decent reticence is branded as hypocrisy, his circumlocutions are roundly called lies, and his silence is vilified as treachery. It was his second introduction to the hypocrisy of officialism. If they were hypocrites they did not know it, and their hypocrisy had every chance of setting and of becoming true. Show More Sentences What has it been but a system of hypocrisy and deceit,espionage, and treachery? I have no bowels for hypocrisy, and I abominate and detest kingship. On the instant, the hypocrisy of cajoling was no longer possible. The world is a miserable, hollow, deceitful shell of vanity and hypocrisy. When they make up their ledger, they balance stupidity by wealth, and vice by hypocrisy. And gushy takes an amiable view of this world of hypocrisy and plunder. It can beget bigotry, breed hypocrisy or hebetate affections. It stretches the notion of hypocrisy to the breaking point to discover the chief tax collector in the land is not paying taxes. It is more free and easy, not so hidebound and overrun with hypocrisy. I'm sick of the hypocrisy that would bury alive a woman of her age if her husband prefers to live with harlots. You can get what the European hotel-keeper thinks is coffee, but it resembles the real thing as hypocrisy resembles holiness. To deny the deep gratification I felt at the encomiums I received, would be hypocrisy. Byron's personality, for instance, was terribly wasted in its battle with the stupidity, and hypocrisy, and Philistinism of the English. I still stood absolutely dumfoundered at what appeared to me her miraculous self-possession and most inscrutable hypocrisy, when the cook entered. Or who in such straits, would permit themselves to be distracted either by Hypocrisy or inconsiderateness? The name of the one was formalist, and the name of the next Hypocrisy. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of hypocrisy? Words that rhyme with hypocrisy What is the plural of hypocrisy? What is the adverb for hypocrisy? What is the adjective for hypocrisy? What is the noun for hypocrisy? Translations for hypocrisy Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words hypocrisies hypocretin hypocotyl hypocoristic hypochromic hypochromia hypocrite hypocrites Hypocrites hypocritical hypocritically hypocycloid 9-letter Words Starting With h hy hyp hypo hypoc hypocr hypocri hypocris