hypocrisy

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  1. noun The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.
  2. noun An act or instance of such falseness.

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  • Still, she understood that the place and time to abolish her hypocrisy was here and now. —  Cube Route
  • But his hypocrisy is amazing because on one hand, he is "pro-life;" yet he seems to be saying that this woman should have been stopped from having another child. —  News Hounds
  • Recognizing your hypocrisy is the first step towards recovery. —  Sound Politics
  • It compared such camps to the Israeli kibbutz and criticised what it described as the hypocrisy of the non-Islamic world in accepting the kibbutz as legitimate centres for community living and self-defence, but denouncing similar camps in its territory as terrorist training camps. —  IntelliBriefs
  • Your hypocrisy is a beacon of hope shining over a sea of political posing. —  Ace of Spades HQ
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falsehood ·  treachery ·  cowardice ·  dishonesty ·  avarice ·  wickedness ·  vanity ·  arrogance ·  duplicity ·  stupidity ·  greed ·  corruption

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hypocrisy:   hypocrisies
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  1. Middle English ipocrisie, from Old French, from Late Latin hypocrisis, play-acting, pretense, from Greek hupokrisis, from hupokrīnesthai, to play a part, pretend : hupo-, hypo- + krīnesthai, to explain, middle voice of krīnein, to decide, judge; see krei- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English hypocrisie, ypocrisie, etc., from Old French ypocrisie, hypocrisie = Provencal ypocrisia = Spanish hipocresía = Portuguese hypocrisia = Italian ipocrisia, from Late Latin hypocrisis, hypocrisy, also an imitation of a person's speech and gestures, from Greek ὑπόκρισις, a reply, an orator's delivery, hypocrisy, from ὑποκρίνεσθαι, answer, play a part, from ὑπό, under, + κρίνεσθαι, contend, dispute: see crisis, critic.
 

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