hypocrisy
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This take is ungenerous but not surprising, given that one of the timeworn accusations against Holden Caulfield is hypocrisy: This guy calls everyone else phony, but he’s just as phony!
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 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
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
He gets very enthusiastic about what if we look at that hypocrisy and just bulldoze over it.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
The breathtaking levels of their hypocrisy had given me a migraine.
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
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
He was also an enslaver, blind, as so many others, to his own hypocrisies.
From Slate ● May 9, 2025
It is why we are so non-plussed by the staggering number of hypocrisies and absurdities that make life seem so incongruous.
From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2023
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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