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hypocrisy

[hi-pok-ruh-see] / hɪˈpɒk rə si /


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“Gender, sexuality, misogyny, religious hypocrisy, pederasty, ethical consent, and a host of layered questions that have a throughline to our world today,” Mr. Costanzo writes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The head of the Norwegian Refugee Council aid group, Jan Egeland, criticised on Thursday what he called the "hypocrisy" of countries demanding rights for Afghan women while cutting humanitarian assistance.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

Smith appearing on Fox News sparked reaction on social media, with some calling out what they said was hypocrisy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

“But pointing out hypocrisy from the state’s top cop is necessary,” Higbe said.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026

I believe my own life mirrors this hypocrisy.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

There are many prejudices exhibited in the story—some Hemingway’s own and some intended to reveal the characters’ hypocrisies and flaws.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Critics come in for harsher abuse, but Mr. Ireland spreads around his comical scorn about the vanities and hypocrisies of theater folk liberally.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

He was also an enslaver, blind, as so many others, to his own hypocrisies.

From Slate ● May 9, 2025

Jules Feiffer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and playwright who cast a cynical eye on the personal and political anxieties, hypocrisies and disappointments of upper-middle-class urbanites, has died in Richfield Springs, N.Y,

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2025

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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