How to Use hypocrisy in a Sentence

hypocrisy

noun

• Teenagers often have a keen awareness of their parents' hypocrisies.
• When his private letters were made public, they revealed his hypocrisy.
• The main item on the charge sheet – hypocrisy – isn’t new.
  — Shafi Musaddique, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Jan. 2022
• The hypocrisy is too much, and some donors have had enough.
  — Neetu Arnold, National Review, 20 Oct. 2023
• To the rest of the world, the hypocrisy is glaring and instructive.
  — Oona A. Hathaway, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
• The hypocrisy of the prime minister sticks in my throat.
  — Hannah Brady, CNN, 13 Jan. 2022
• But not even the most Russophilic Kharkivite could ignore the hypocrisy of the siege.
  — James Verini, New York Times, 19 May 2022
• And third, there’s the GOP hypocrisy—as there always is with them.
  — Dean Obeidallah, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2022
• Is their hypocrisy one of the most frustrating parts of all this?
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2023
• Much of the comedy is stretched on the grid of power and hypocrisy.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2022
• In minutes, Twitter users replied to the tweet with charges of hypocrisy.
  — NBC News, 12 Oct. 2021
• That’s the true, the ultimate hypocrisy of this council.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 20 July 2023
• O'Fuarain sees a bit of hypocrisy within Fjall at the start of Blood Origin.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 26 Sep. 2022
• For a white youth to accept the brutal hypocrisies of the way things are is a rite of passage.
  — Darryl Pinckney, The New York Review of Books, 16 Mar. 2023
• Yeah, the hypocrisy on it is -- is speak Washington there.
  — ABC News, 13 Aug. 2023
• That said, the whole debate is suffused with hypocrisy.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2023
• To Arai, all this smacked of opportunism and hypocrisy.
  — Esther Wang, Curbed, 17 Dec. 2021
• Yet Trudeau's not the only one who can be accused of hypocrisy.
  — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 11 Feb. 2022
• The show isn’t making new points about the hypocrisy of for-profit worship.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 16 June 2023
• Charges of hypocrisy against the West are often accurate and fair.
  — Matias Spektor, Foreign Affairs, 21 July 2023
• But that doesn’t let Democrats off the hook for their astounding hypocrisy.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2022
• The decision to reject the project on the Nordstrom parking lot was the height of hypocrisy.
  — Alexei Koseff, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Nov. 2021
• But there’s still a lesson to be learned from the ongoing hypocrisy.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2023
• And so, in the moist confines of his conflicted young mind, the spores of hypocrisy find fertile soil.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2022
• However, at around $120 for a pair of leggings, many were quick to point out the brand’s hypocrisy.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 3 Jan. 2024
• That the United States is not a member of the court and has sanctioned its leaders adds to claims of hypocrisy.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
• The move is made because the English are tired of the hypocrisy in the sport, the shamateurism that plagues high-class tennis.
  — Town & Country, 8 July 2023
• Each party is willing to accept a degree of hypocrisy on the part of the other.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
• The hypocrisy is galling, the disdain for the audience's memory and awareness breathtaking.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 6 Nov. 2024
• The arguments made by antiabortion states to sugarcoat their manifestly misogynistic policies have always borne the acrid odor of cynicism and hypocrisy.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024