hypocrisy
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Smith appearing on Fox News sparked reaction on social media, with some calling out what they said was hypocrisy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
German centre-right politician Jens Spahn has resigned as parliamentary group leader of the country's governing coalition after being accused of hypocrisy over his use of a surrogate mother in the US to have a child.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
“But pointing out hypocrisy from the state’s top cop is necessary,” Higbe said.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
Lawrence’s own flaw is the hypocrisy that allows him to carry on an affair with a married person while condemning Lily when it appears that she has done the same.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
I believe my own life mirrors this hypocrisy.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
Through her fierce exposure of her ugly travails, Ms. Williams’s Anna seems to grow in stature and radiance—becoming a truth-teller who isn’t afraid to risk love, or life, to expose men’s hypocrisies and double standards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025
And grew up on Mad magazine, where young minds were taught to recognize the deceptions and hypocrisies of politics, business and media.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2025
Tribune News Service critic Katie Walsh described the film as “a social satire that wields a scalpel, not a cleaving broadsword, as it surgically slices through the many hypocrisies of the culture industry at large.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2024
It is why we are so non-plussed by the staggering number of hypocrisies and absurdities that make life seem so incongruous.
From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2023
“Thanks. We’ll go peep,” Sean said, never one to sugarcoat his displeasure at the hypocrisies of high school nonsense.
From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan
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