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Sentence count:135+6Posted:2016-10-18Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: lip serviceSimilar words: hypothesisaristocratcrisisfinancial crisishyperhypnotisedDemocratdemocracyMeaning: [hɪ'pɑkrəsɪ /-'pɒk-]  n. 1. an expression of agreement that is not supported by real conviction 2. insincerity by virtue of pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not really have. 
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31. This whiff of hypocrisy can only cause resentment.
32. To them, hypocrisy is aggravated assault by other means.
33. At the same time I seethed at their hypocrisy.
34. If there's one thing I can't stand, it's hypocrisy.
35. Your hypocrisy insults my intelligence. Toba Beta 
36. Politeness, The most acceptable hypocrisyAmbrose Bierce 
37. We are all open to the charge of hypocrisy.
38. She mobilised all those who felt either humiliated by its paternalism or angry at its hypocrisy.
39. Yet things have a way of evening ut, and I paid a heavy price for my hypocrisy.
40. In classical literature and ethics hypocrisy is condemned as undermining the essential distinction between good and evil.
41. That sums up the cynical hypocrisy and political opportunism of Labour.
42. But, in the policy on nationalities,(http://sentencedict.com/hypocrisy.html) hypocrisy was no more extreme than in other sectors of policy.
43. There are those who can embrace this as a sort of liberation from convention and hypocrisy.
44. His hypocrisy was noted and resented by the mortgage traders.
45. It would be an affront to the fundamental beliefs of many churchgoers and insensitive hypocrisy of the worst kind.
46. Adolescents are very sensitive about pretence, hypocrisy or deceit on the part of their parents.
47. The hypocrisy is the pretense that the players are scholars whose colleges are competing for the glory of it all.
48. The problem lies in ethical anomie, philosophical befuddlement and the hypocrisy that today permeates every aspect of our so-called civilized world.
49. Such a degree of hypocrisy can not be tolerated; it is morally indefensible, and in defiance of the rule of law.
50. I am painfully aware of how we get caught up in our times and become contaminated by our own hypocrisy.
51. In Shakespearian tragedy, hypocrisy is not only a poison in itself but the cause of ever greater destruction.
52. Advertisers also point out the hypocrisy of barring sponsored programmes when sports coverage is awash with branding.
53. The double standards and hypocrisy surrounding this particular issue are incredible.
54. Macbeth resembles Angelo in many ways, his hypocrisy being similarly fed by desire yet opposed by conscience.
55. A strong sense of right and wrong inspired paintings satirizing puritan hypocrisy and the destruction of wildlife.
56. He, too, was guilty at times of hypocrisy and self-righteousness, he acknowledged.
57. But the only abuse practiced on Capitol Hill right now is an abuse of the laws of hypocrisy.
58. The essential hypocrisy that has characterized so much modern film journalism was being established.
59. But it seems to us that hypocrisy should be made of sterner stuff.
60. In Shakespeare, hypocrisy is linked inseparably with that rapacious egoism that is willing to destroy all in order to advance itself.
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