All 3 Uses of
hypocrisy
in
Wuthering Heights
- 'With that I shut the window and returned to my place by the fire; having too small a stock of hypocrisy at my command to pretend any anxiety for the danger that menaced him.†
Chpt 17 *
- He had the hypocrisy to represent a mourner: and previous to following with Hareton, he lifted the unfortunate child on to the table and muttered, with peculiar gusto, 'Now, my bonny lad, you are MINE!†
Chpt 17
- Hareton, and the whole set of you, will be good enough to understand that I reject any pretence at kindness you have the hypocrisy to offer!†
Chpt 30
Definition:
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(hypocrisy) pretending to have moral standards while not living up to them