How to Use hypocrite in a Sentence

hypocrite

noun
  • For his part, Finebaum told AL.com that Kiffin is a hypocrite.
    Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 25 July 2023
  • Politicians are a special breed of liars and hypocrites.
    Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2023
  • And she's just spotted one of the biggest hypocrites on the internet.
    Suzannah Weiss, Glamour, 13 July 2017
  • His own son has implied Walker is a hypocrite and a liar.
    Frida Ghitis, CNN, 29 Nov. 2022
  • But here's the thing: Most of you mayonnaise haters out there are hypocrites and cowards.
    Emily Dreyfuss, WIRED, 4 July 2019
  • Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr is a hypocrite and should be called out on it.
    Mike Bianchi, OrlandoSentinel.com, 25 May 2018
  • Sporting a hot pink uniform and white kicks splashed with a rainbow stripe, Nas swoops in, catches the hypocrite in the act, and slugs him.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 23 July 2021
  • And in the end, this sleek hypocrite of a picture is just another user.
    Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Tartuffe is shown as a hypocrite in his lecheries, but a human being in his appetites.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2022
  • No one’s going to call you out for being a hypocrite on Homescapes!
    Quinta Brunson, Vulture, 7 June 2021
  • Someone back then should have pounded on the table, gaped at the government lies, yelled at the hypocrites.
    Sophia Moskalenko, Vox, 2 July 2019
  • His post drew thousands of replies, many calling him a hypocrite given his past.
    Dallas News, 2 Mar. 2023
  • And yet, the locals who scorn them are also hypocrites who lust for what the family is selling.
    Rob Tannenbaum, Billboard, 19 May 2017
  • Because Joe, as viewers know, is the world's biggest hypocrite.
    Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Hypocrisy is what people hate about career politicians and Josh isn't afraid to call Brown out for being a hypocrite.
    Stephen Koff, cleveland.com, 11 Dec. 2017
  • The letter reads: Dear journalists who have called us hypocrites.
    John Fund, National Review, 20 Oct. 2019
  • And Biden, the hypocrite who was sleeping so peacefully at Glasgow?
    John R. MacArthur, Harper’s Magazine , 21 Dec. 2021
  • Worse yet, there are the hypocrites, who hurry to church on Sunday, but exhibit a whole spectrum of sins during the week.
    Lorraine V. Murray, ajc, 1 June 2018
  • He is scorned as a hypocrite on both sides for having stayed in the Trump administration.
    Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2020
  • The genuine hypocrite does or says one thing in public and another in private.
    Barton Swaim, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2020
  • Residente fired back and referred to Balvin as a hypocrite, then compared his talent to cheap street food.
    Juan J. Arroyo, Rolling Stone, 29 Dec. 2022
  • For the rest of the group, condemning the hypocrite in the strongest possible terms is an act of self-defense, a way to deter others from trying the same.
    New York Times, 22 Jan. 2022
  • But those who prefer not to hunt and still eat meat are not hypocrites or ignorant due to their preference.
    Anchorage Daily News, 18 Jan. 2020
  • And in an interview on Fox News Conway called Clinton a hypocrite.
    Jeff Darcy, cleveland.com, 12 Oct. 2017
  • The squabbling Waterfords play a game of one-downsmanship in the foyer to demonstrate who the bigger hypocrite is.
    Rena Gross, Billboard, 27 June 2018
  • In thousands of tweets across the country, the people of Grimsby were derided as dummies and hypocrites.
    David Segal, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Every single person that has signed it is a hypocrite in some regard.
    Charlie Harding and Nate Sloan, Vulture, 24 June 2021
  • Fashion makes hypocrites of us all at one point or another.
    Stella Bugbee, The Cut, 11 May 2018
  • Warriors head coach Steve Kerr stayed neutral and was tagged a hypocrite and belittled by the president of the United States.
    Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Who was a pawn, a mercenary, a hypocrite, an accomplice?
    Anne Diebel, The New York Review of Books, 28 Jan. 2020

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