hypocrite
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That set off a firestorm of comments about whether or not Grantham was a hypocrite.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
I’m the hypocrite who’s stayed up for Jake Paul’s boxing matches.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
She had seen some of Watt's YouTube videos at the protests and described him as "a hypocrite".
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2025
“He’s not a hypocrite saying one thing and doing another. He lives what he believes.”
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2025
I know that makes me a bit of a hypocrite.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
We would all benefit from a dose of good form, even if it makes us hypocrites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
Others will twist the joke's objective to validate their prejudice or use it to call other artists hypocrites, which is enough of a reason to steer clear of no-go areas "Tropic Thunder" dove into face-first.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2023
I worry that it is turning us into hypocrites who, when it comes to the privacy of our conversations, have higher expectations for how others should treat us than for how we treat others.
From Slate ● Aug. 16, 2023
Rosenblum snaps back to the beginning of the summer, where she lays out her rogues’ gallery of gossips, hypocrites, cheaters.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2023
To all this I responded with laughter, happy to be in league against the world of hypocrites and rulemongers.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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