How to Use hypocritical in a Sentence

hypocritical

adjective

• But the truth is, hypocritical is the least bad thing this is.
  — Author: Leonard Pitts, Alaska Dispatch News, 23 July 2017
• From the get-go, one of their guiding lights seems to have led a hypocritical life.
  — Cherie Deville, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2023
• To cat meat and then denounce the elk hunt was hypocritical, but there was no budging him.
  — Susan Casey, Field & Stream, 6 Dec. 2020
• Pusha thinks that’s a bit hypocritical of Drake, for a few reasons.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 31 May 2018
• Some Hearties found this to be hypocritical since Elizabeth won't do the same in her own life.
  — Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 8 Mar. 2021
• And for the people saying the NFL is hypocritical here, no.
  — Lance Pugmire, USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2021
• Yet to turn around and endorse or forgive the use of steroids at this point would be beyond hypocritical on my part.
  — Jeff Jacobs, courant.com, 16 Dec. 2017
• The hypocritical words that come from him tell me nothing.
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2018
• But also—Brody was the star of a TV show about spoiled rich kids too, so wasn’t his assumption hypocritical?
  — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 5 Apr. 2021
• Some believed that the outfit was a hypocritical dig on Kent's part.
  — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 16 July 2024
• Yet Bianco is nowhere near as hypocritical in his stance as Barnes.
  — Gustavo Arellano Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2020
• John McCain himself went out of his way to highlight why his choice was so sad, and so hypocritical.
  — James Fallows, The Atlantic, 26 July 2017
• That might seem hypocritical, but also, that’s the point.
  — Jaya Saxena, GQ, 19 Apr. 2018
• Still, pro sports leagues, and the NCAA, are filled with hypocritical and powerful people.
  — Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
• And to shine a light on the disingenuous, hypocritical manner in which the NFL does business.
  — Gary Peterson, chicagotribune.com, 18 Sep. 2019
• Is the Western world hypocritical by trying to eliminate the drug, while at the same time being one of its key markets?
  — Paul Sedan, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Jan. 2021
• That said, my choice can’t—and shouldn’t—be everyone’s, and a New York City fur ban is both misguided and hypocritical.
  — Faran Krentcil, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Sep. 2019
• This is the most hypocritical, clueless statement in her regrettable time in the WH.
  — Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2018
• The American way is to be part of a system that is hypocritical at best, even if a Facebook rant by a brother looking to get his turns out to be just that.
  — Mike Jensen, Philly.com, 30 June 2017
• Scoundrels may not be aspirational figures for most of us, but a good scoundrel, shameless and hypocritical, can be a lot of fun.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2023
• And what the hypocritical NFL is doing is half-hearted.
  — Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2020
• Texas’s resistance might seem hypocritical, in light of how much the state will benefit from having a Democrat in the White House.
  — The Economist, 23 Feb. 2021
• The City Council is not being hypocritical; the Star Tribune is.
  — Star Tribune, 25 Sep. 2020
• During his radio show, Stern explained why the events — and the reactions to them — were hypocritical.
  — Kelly Wynne, PEOPLE.com, 5 May 2022
• This was a campaign-style speech and the message couldn’t have been clearer: The Paris climate deal was pushed by hypocritical cosmopolitan elites.
  — Alex Shephard, New Republic, 2 June 2017
• But support of the show based on that storyline alone is hypocritical.
  — Yolanda MacHado, Marie Claire, 2 Apr. 2018
• Democrats have decried that plan as hypocritical, pointing to what happened in the 2016 election year.
  — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2020
• Trying to climb on any high horse would only be embarrassing at best, and at the very least hypocritical.
  — Danielle Campoamor, refinery29.com, 5 Jan. 2021
• Democrats started using the bills' failure to call Republicans hypocritical and Republicans called the sure-to-fail bill a political stunt.
  — Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 31 July 2024
• The sprinter figured winning was a bigger act of protest, especially because plenty of hypocritical discrimination was happening on his home turf, too.
  — Madeleine Janz, Peoplemag, 20 June 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024