All 6 Uses of
hypocrisy
in
Gone with the Wind
- He could no more resist pricking the conceits, the hypocrisies and the flamboyant patriotism of those about him than a small boy can resist putting a pin into a balloon.†
Chpt 2.12 *
- "You are never so charming or so absurd as when you are airing some hypocrisy like that," he cried in frank enjoyment.†
Chpt 4.36
- And if that was hypocrisy, let Atlanta make the most of it.†
Chpt 4.38
- But it hasn't been hypocrisy that's kept me quiet.†
Chpt 4.45
- He buttonholed people on the street and related details of his child's miraculous progress without even prefacing his remarks with the hypocritical but polite: "I know everyone thinks their own child is smart but—"†
Chpt 5.50
- Oh, that was too hard a penance, she thought in anguish, to have to live out her life remembering Melanie's face, knowing that Melanie knew all the pettiness, the meanness, the two-faced disloyalty and the hypocrisy that were in her.†
Chpt 5.55
Definition:
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(hypocrisy) pretending to have moral standards while not living up to them