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hypocrisy
  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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  6. Examples:
    1. “The way society views the whole drug scene is riddled with hypocrisy and double standards.”
      “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.”
hypocrite
  1. Someone who practices hypocrisy, who pretends to hold beliefs, or whose actions are not consistent with their claimed beliefs. [from early 13th c.]
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He is a good-mannered hypocrite whose tedious righteousness has driven his beloved wife away.”
      “He describes the conduct of one reverend, Mr. Rigby Hopkins, whom he considers the greatest religious hypocrite.”
      “When you enunciate your principles, you are condemned as a hypocrite because your people have failed to live by them.”
hypocrisie
  1. Obsolete form of hypocrisy.
hypocrism
  1. (obsolete) hypocrisy
hypocrites
  1. plural of hypocrite
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Such exhortations are the railings of hypocrites who selfishly skewer non-believers with the power they all-the-time possess.”
      “Those who equate them are treacherous without art and hypocrites without deceiving.”
      “She firmly tells her audience that chivalry and courtliness are about real things, that hypocrites and coy flibbertigibbets are without honour.”
hypocrisies
  1. plural of hypocrisy
  2. Examples:
    1. “This event truly has laid bare, unlike any other, the awful contradictions and hypocrisies of American society.”
      “However, second generation migrants are brought face-to-face with the hypocrisies in any society.”
      “This is by no means an attempt to negate the faults, hypocrisies and deviations of the American system.”
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