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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

He was willing to risk seeming like a hypocrite.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore

And studies show that the people we most like to label as hypocrites are our enemies—surprise!—and others who we think aren’t like us.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2025

“My hope is that I’m getting to bring one of the greatest hypocrites to life in a way that will both make people laugh and also make them recognize that archetype.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2025

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

Let the old hypocrites learn to mind their own business, and leave other folks alone.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston




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