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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
- You seem to me to have absolutely no conscience—only hypocrisy; and you can't see the difference...George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman
- ...spouting my opinions on rich football players and hypocritical college sports programs.Mitch Albom -- Tuesdays with Morrie
- 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
- No, no. Hypocrisy seldom goes with wrinkled age like that.Lew Wallace -- Ben Hur
- I had always my hypocrisy of "work," behind which, now, I gained the sofa.Henry James -- The Turn of the Screw
hypocritical = pretending to have moral standards while not living up to them
hypocrisy = pretending to have moral standards while not living up to them
hypocritical = pretending to have moral standards while not living up to them