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 hypocrisy of the prime minister sticks in my throat.
  — Hannah Brady, CNN, 13 Jan. 2022
• To Arai, all this smacked of opportunism and hypocrisy.
  — Esther Wang, Curbed, 17 Dec. 2021
• Beyond all that, there’s the question of Jordan’s hypocrisy.
  — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 11 Jan. 2022
• This same ecosystem treats any and all mainstream coverage of Democrats that doesn't savage them as infected by hypocrisy and double standards.
  — Damon Linker, The Week, 8 Dec. 2021
• This would be the ultimate example of moral hypocrisy except that Campion finds morality nowhere.
  — Armond White, National Review, 31 Dec. 2021
• Others applauded the Irish airline for using levity to point out government hypocrisy.
  — Fortune, 14 Dec. 2021
• Sharing information on social media about the harm done by the Houthis to ordinary Yemenis would help demonstrate the group’s hypocrisy.
  — Alexandra Stark, Foreign Affairs, 2 Aug. 2024
• This has drawn accusations of hypocrisy and emboldens countries the U.S. is at odds with, such as Russia and China.
  — Suriya Jayanti, TIME, 21 Sep. 2024
• On Monday the hypocrisy of Fox's biggest stars was highlighted by a bipartisan House committee.
  — Brian Stelter, CNN, 16 Dec. 2021
• The governor's decision to submit maps in court that hadn't been previously made public prompted accusations of hypocrisy from his opponents.
  — Craig Gilbert, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Dec. 2021
• But the research, released by secondhand wholesaler Garson & Shaw, also revealed a degree of hypocrisy couched within those sentiments.
  — Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 18 Sep. 2024
• His first novel is a comic but compassionate exploration of race, sexuality and religious hypocrisy that tempers its outrage with absurdism.
  — Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024