HYPOCRISY in a Sentence
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27 example sentences for HYPOCRISY, such as:
1. But it hasn't been hypocrisy that's kept me quiet.
2. And if that was hypocrisy, let Atlanta make the most of it.
3. The past has a visage, superstition, and a mask, hypocrisy.
4. The only reality was nothingness, and over it a hypocrisy of words.
5. The government's claim to be concerned about unemployment is sheer hypocrisy.
2. And if that was hypocrisy, let Atlanta make the most of it.
3. The past has a visage, superstition, and a mask, hypocrisy.
4. The only reality was nothingness, and over it a hypocrisy of words.
5. The government's claim to be concerned about unemployment is sheer hypocrisy.
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Meanings and Examples of HYPOCRISY
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hypocrisy
n. insincerity by virtue of pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not really have
n. an expression of agreement that is not supported by real conviction
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1 That feeling was an intimate, familiar feeling, like a consciousness of hypocrisy, which she experienced in her relations with her husband.
2 Her eyes were, it seemed, opened; she felt all the difficulty of maintaining herself without hypocrisy and self-conceit on the pinnacle to which she had wished to mount.
3 Nikolay probably felt the same; he began questioning his brother about his affairs; and Levin was glad to talk about himself, because then he could speak without hypocrisy.
4 At this moment, in his present softened state of feeling, sensitive to everything, this inevitable act of hypocrisy was not merely painful to Levin, it seemed to him utterly impossible.
5 Katavasov went back to his own carriage, and with reluctant hypocrisy reported to Sergey Ivanovitch his observations of the volunteers, from which it would appear that they were capital fellows.
6 "You are never so charming or so absurd as when you are airing some hypocrisy like that," he cried in frank enjoyment.
7 And if that was hypocrisy, let Atlanta make the most of it.
8 But it hasn't been hypocrisy that's kept me quiet.
9 The point on which we are certain is, that the difficulties of faith never resolved themselves into hypocrisy in his case.
10 This is the worst species; hypocrisy enters into it.
11 The past has a visage, superstition, and a mask, hypocrisy.
12 I still stood absolutely dumfoundered at what appeared to me her miraculous self-possession and most inscrutable hypocrisy, when the cook entered.
13 Nay, when I read a letter of his, I cannot help giving him the preference even over Wickham, much as I value the impudence and hypocrisy of my son-in-law.
14 She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent.
15 The only reality was nothingness, and over it a hypocrisy of words.
Example Sentence:
1 The novel tells the story of a teenager driven to despair by the hypocrisy of the adult world.
2 The debate in the mainstream press has been a classic example of British hypocrisy.
3 There's one rule for her and another rule for everyone else and it's sheer hypocrisy.
4 He then went on to accuse the West of hypocrisy in criticising Russia's human rights record.
5 The government's claim to be concerned about unemployment is sheer hypocrisy.