Sample sentences for HYPOCRISY

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Definition

pretending to have moral standards while not living up to them

It's not clear if she is guilty of moral hypocrisy or moral weakness.

hypocrisy = pretending to have moral standards while not living up to them

Hypocrisy is a standard feature of party politics with the majority regularly taking steps they claimed were wrong when the other party had the majority.
I would rather see hypocrisy due to weakness than abdication of moral standards.
By next morning Grandpa had found a way to thumb his nose at the whole dang town, so pious and hypocritical:
Olive Ann Burns -- Cold Sassy Tree

hypocritical = pretending to have moral standards while not living up to them

You seem to me to have absolutely no conscience—only hypocrisy; and you can't see the difference...
George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman

hypocrisy = pretending to have moral standards while not living up to them

...spouting my opinions on rich football players and hypocritical college sports programs.
Mitch Albom -- Tuesdays with Morrie

hypocritical = pretending to have moral standards while not living up to them

There was a bit of lie in this attitude of mine, a bit of hypocrisy; but the lie and the hypocrisy were those of a man desiring to live.
London, Jack -- John Barleycorn
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In hypocrisy he had worn the mask of goodness.
Wilde, Oscar -- The Picture Of Dorian Gray
...child, you should read books which would teach you a little hypocrisy, which would instruct you how to hide your thoughts a little better.
Fielding, Henry -- The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Neither lying, nor cheating, nor hypocrisy was here.
London, Jack -- Burning Daylight
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing.
Edmund Burke
His decent reticence is branded as hypocrisy, his circumlocutions are roundly called lies, and his silence is vilified as treachery.
Maugham, W. Somerset -- Moon and Sixpence
I could bear those hypocritical smiles no longer!
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Tell-Tale Heart
Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Frederick Douglass -- The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
He was such a brute, that cook, illtempered and hypocritical.
Yann Martel -- Life of Pi
"Rather hypocritical," Annabeth said, "since the gods make fun of each other all the time.
Rick Riordan -- The Mark of Athena
They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.
Helen Keller -- Story of My Life
It seems hypocritical, perverse.
Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns
No, no. Hypocrisy seldom goes with wrinkled age like that.
Lew Wallace -- Ben Hur

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