hypocrisy
noun
a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.
hypocrisies
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pluralof hypocrisy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Critics come in for harsher abuse, but Mr. Ireland spreads around his comical scorn about the vanities and hypocrisies of theater folk liberally.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
And the scenes between Kim’s DHH and Ryan Eggold’s Marcus, the purely invented figure in the play, revel in the hilarious hypocrisies that Hwang impishly sends up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2024
The disillusionment I felt was rooted in something deeper than sex scandals or political hypocrisies or everyday human failures.
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2023
I think kids are flexible and resilient, and a lot of the kids I spoke to see their own hypocrisies.
From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2023
Back in high school, she was extremely vocal in pointing out hypocrisies in the curriculum, or inequalities in their disciplinary system—and nothing has really changed now that she’s a social ecology major at UC Irvine.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
