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hypocrisy

[hi-pok-ruh-see] / hɪˈpɒk rə si /


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“His legacy is his children,” she continued, while calling out Wilson’s own hypocrisy for defending Erika Kirk despite long arguing that a woman belongs in the home, not the office.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 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

He criticised "pearl clutching and hypocrisy from people who should know better".

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

David Lindsay-Abaire’s “The Balusters” is a piquant comedy satirizing the hollowness and hypocrisy of well-to-do do-gooders on a neighborhood homeowners association board.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

Maybe it was the residency issue that did me in, though I suspect it was the misplaced hypocrisy.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

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

Twain was both a brilliant writer who exposed America’s hypocrisies with humor and wit, and an angry man who savored revenge, nursed grudges and blamed God for the blows fate rained down on his head.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2025

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

From Slate ● May 9, 2025

And the scenes between Kim’s DHH and Ryan Eggold’s Marcus, the purely invented figure in the play, revel in the hilarious hypocrisies that Hwang impishly sends up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2024

In the dark, in the moonless jungle, the fissures are not so visible, the hypocrisies and lies less disturbing.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García




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