hypocrisy

But the DNA of the Barbary wars exists throughout American military history, a cocktail of entitlement, bravado and hypocrisy flavored with desperate violence.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

She said last year she had turned down France's highest civilian honour, the legion d'honneur, accusing the country of "hypocrisy" over visa policies that prevented dissidents travelling from Iran to France.

From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026

Emilia, by contrast, is a strikingly modern figure in her cynical assessments of the hypocrisy of a culture that will deride women for sexual behavior that wouldn’t be censured in men.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026

If this sham was conventional hypocrisy, she had to concede that it had its uses.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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

And grew up on Mad magazine, where young minds were taught to recognize the deceptions and hypocrisies of politics, business and media.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2025

You did have somebody like Mark Twain write really perceptively about the hypocrisies of that age.

From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2025

I think kids are flexible and resilient, and a lot of the kids I spoke to see their own hypocrisies.

From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2023

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