Both Uses of
hypocrite
in
Hard Times
- CHAPTER III — THE WHELP IT was very remarkable that a young gentleman who had been brought up under one continuous system of unnatural restraint, should be a hypocrite; but it was certainly the case with Tom.†
Chpt 2.3 *
- The not being troubled with earnestness was a grand point in his favour, enabling him to take to the hard Fact fellows with as good a grace as if he had been born one of the tribe, and to throw all other tribes overboard, as conscious hypocrites.†
Chpt 2.7
Definition:
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(hypocrite) someone who violates claimed moral standards