Sentence examples for hypocritical as from inspiring English sources

His name is the inspiration for the adjective pecksniffian, meaning "hypocritical", as well as a host of other derivatives including peckniffianism and pecksniffery.

Yes, we, the fortunate inhabitants of the West, are more free than those who live and die in the South and East, but some of the claims made by our absolutists are hypocritical as well as outlandish.

But she isn't hypocritical as much as just plain old.

We are hypocritical as far as Bosnia is concerned when we are claiming to defend it but in reality we are abandoning it.(Mazowiecki letter of Resignation,  July 27 , 1995from London).

THERE are few things quite as hypocritical as American politicians hurling accusations of cronyism.

Kennedy's switch wasn't quite as hypocritical as his opponents tried to pretend.

It is hypocritical -- as well as offensive -- to talk about "a new beginning" while carrying out old policies of lies, demonization, threats and subversion.

True, but do Democrats want to be just as hypocritical, just as opportunistic?

And St Aubyn's ability to pierce the façade of moneyed politesse that veils cruel, hypocritical behaviour is as acute as Alan Hollinghurst's in The Line of Beauty.

MPs and public health professionals should be more vocal, and campaign against this hypocritical 'do as I say, not as I do' position.

If Tea Party standard-bearers end up being as hypocritical on entitlements as most American politicians, then this liberal narrative, at least, will have been vindicated.