hypocrisy
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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
“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
Lawrence’s own flaw is the hypocrisy that allows him to carry on an affair with a married person while condemning Lily when it appears that she has done the same.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
And knowing that my mother in there was a statistic that didn’t have to be, that existed because of a society’s failure, hypocrisy, greed, and lack of mercy and compassion.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
Likewise, many well-known geniuses like Billy Wilder, Otto Preminger and Fritz Lang, who were chased out of Europe by the Nazis, brilliantly exposed the hypocrisies and soul deadening conformity of mainstream American culture.
From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2026
Through her fierce exposure of her ugly travails, Ms. Williams’s Anna seems to grow in stature and radiance—becoming a truth-teller who isn’t afraid to risk love, or life, to expose men’s hypocrisies and double standards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025
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
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
“Thanks. We’ll go peep,” Sean said, never one to sugarcoat his displeasure at the hypocrisies of high school nonsense.
From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan
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