hypocrisy
Example Sentences
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“The fact that they’re engaging in that while arguing for a unified sense of documentation shows the hypocrisy,” Hancock said.
From Salon
The French aphorist François de La Rochefoucauld remarked that “hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue.”
"I have not seen so much hypocrisy in his criticism for a long time, and from all sides," he said.
From BBC
It is worse than hypocrisy, because they seek to deceive not only others but themselves.
They can be scathingly ironic, alert to every hypocrisy that corroborates their cynical worldview, and even seductive in a perverse, power-mad way.
From Los Angeles Times
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