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What does hypocrisy mean?

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Noun
  1. 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. The claim or pretense of having beliefs, standards, qualities, behaviours, virtues, motivations, etc. which one does not actually have. [from early 13th c.]
  3. 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.
  4. An instance of any or all of the above.
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I think all this self-righteous morality is just jealousy with a halo and hypocrisy.
At the same time, the artist alludes to the real world, having it out with hypocrisy and duplicity.
Since we'd done a fair amount of sinning together, her efforts came across to me as hypocrisy and I cannot abide a hypocrite.
We are individuals as well as social beings, and open to accusations of selfishness and hypocrisy.
If it's wrong to extol virtue, it should be wrong to condemn a vice like hypocrisy.
Unfortunately, the conservative argument against gay marriage often reeks of hypocrisy.

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