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to hypocritical
adjective
Characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite.
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Hitler and Mussolini made decisive contributions of arms and men to the future dictator, General Francisco Franco, a man who boasted of preferring blood and bayonets to "hypocritical elections".
Studying them in a high-end gallery, a critic interprets them as monuments of resistance to hypocritical mainstream culture and locates them in an avant-garde tradition, running from Rimbaud to Dash Snow, based on the conviction that going crazy is the only sane response to modern life.
That being said, I prefer brutal honesty to hypocritical politeness.
"He prefers brutal honesty to hypocritical politeness," Khosla explains (see: Rabois' Twitter feed).
I swore I would not let this happen again and have since carried the statement "we prefer brutal honesty to hypocritical politeness" on our website.
He did it to hypocritical Wall Street analysts, to insurance brokers who collected fees from both insurers and their customers and to fund operators that allowed favored clients to trade their way in and out of mutual funds.
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To be hypocritical or to express two conflicting points of view.
In 2002 Breast Cancer Action coined a term to refer to that hypocritical marketing practice: pinkwashing.
"To not support that because I have ideological issues that are unrelated, to me, seems to be hypocritical".
Without intending to be hypocritical, I'm going to recommend an action about which I have mixed feelings!
The implicit prescription (or maybe it's just my reading into it) seems to be to punish the hypocritical well-to-do.
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