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Which literary character is best known as a hypocrite?

hypocrite

[hip-uh-krit] / ˈhɪp ə krɪt /


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"My mother was a Democrat and my daddy was a Republican, so I’m a hypocrite," she quipped.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

"Sometimes I feel a bit of a hypocrite because I used to move clubs for extra money," he says.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

That set off a firestorm of comments about whether or not Grantham was a hypocrite.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026

While historians often portray Cromwell as “a hypocrite or a double-dealer,” here he’s a dexterous politician, a pragmatic and adaptable leader who “could ride two horses at once, while advancing three agendas.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026

How big of a hypocrite can I be?”

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone

Like schoolyard kids forced to shake hands after a nasty fight, Americans could use a healthy respect for good form, even at the risk of being hypocrites.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

And most of the rest, as the Guttmacher statistics show, are liars and/or hypocrites.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 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

A few hypocrites devised such evasive games as “playing house” or “doctor.”

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith




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