Sentence examples for hypocrisy from inspiring English sources

The word 'hypocrisy' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe someone that does or says one thing but does or believes the opposite. For example, "He professed his belief in racial equality, yet his actions displayed hypocrisy."

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hypocrisy

noun

The contrivance of a false appearance of virtue or goodness, while concealing real character or inclinations, especially. with respect to religious and moral beliefs; hence in general sense, dissimulation, pretence, sham.

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Aamir Khan, one of Bollywood's biggest stars, plays PK's eponymous lead, an alien who gets left behind by his spaceship in the Rajasthan desert and stumbles on to the hypocrisy and deceit in organised religion.

The more he recognised it, the more it felt like hypocrisy.

The next phase of his career was marked by some searing attacks on political hypocrisy.

"It is sheer hypocrisy," said one senior Tory MP. "He will regret this because he can't ride two horses at once".

Sergei Golovkin, head of the Maltese government's wild-bird regulation unit, said there was "an element of hypocrisy" in international criticism.

Farage revealed his hypocrisy – he is one of the rich public schoolboys he castigated – and his nastiness.

"To say this sharply and with such clarity and, I would say, courage, is refreshing given the chorus of hypocrisy and ignorance," Netanyahu said.

It was a protest against the narrowing of horizons; a protest against Lib Dem hypocrisy; a protest against the increasingly utilitarian approach to human life that sees degrees as nothing but "investments" by individuals, and denies any link between education and the broader social good.

But the Alliance for Choice organisation described the Maginness-Girvan motion as "hypocrisy" because it pretends abortion does not happen in Northern Ireland.

Pro-choice and women's groups have condemned the move, accusing both politicians of "hypocrisy" given that Northern Irish women in crisis pregnancies can already access abortion pills on the internet or else have a medical termination in England.

We're here today to highlight the hypocrisy of big energy companies profiting from a continued investment in destructive fossil fuels".

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