hypocrisy
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But the DNA of the Barbary wars exists throughout American military history, a cocktail of entitlement, bravado and hypocrisy flavored with desperate violence.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
Some social media users have also taken issue with what they see as the hypocrisy of picking up rubbish abroad, when Japan's public spaces are often lined with rubbish after large events.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
She said last year she had turned down France's highest civilian honour, the legion d'honneur, accusing the country of "hypocrisy" over visa policies that prevented dissidents travelling from Iran to France.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
Emilia, by contrast, is a strikingly modern figure in her cynical assessments of the hypocrisy of a culture that will deride women for sexual behavior that wouldn’t be censured in men.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026
“How could I do the thing that I must instruct her to never do, once she knows how to understand? That’s hypocrisy, is what.”
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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 the scenes between Kim’s DHH and Ryan Eggold’s Marcus, the purely invented figure in the play, revel in the hilarious hypocrisies that Hwang impishly sends up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2024
In the Henrik Ibsen play, a man dares to publicly expose the hypocrisies and truths of his society and is punished for it.
From Salon ● May 20, 2024
I think kids are flexible and resilient, and a lot of the kids I spoke to see their own hypocrisies.
From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2023
Back in high school, she was extremely vocal in pointing out hypocrisies in the curriculum, or inequalities in their disciplinary system—and nothing has really changed now that she’s a social ecology major at UC Irvine.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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