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  • We were talking about what hypocrisy is, and about pretending, and how easy it is to fake it.†  (source)
  • It was just that his tolerance of his own hypocrisy was wearing thin.†  (source)
  • He brooded at length over what he perceived to be his father's moral shortcomings, the hypocrisy of his parents' lifestyle, the tyranny of their conditional love.†  (source)
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  • Over the trenches God had burst like a balloon, and there was nothing left of him but grubby little scraps of hypocrisy.†  (source)
  • He was such a brute, that cook, illtempered and hypocritical.†  (source)
  • The chickenyard boiled with excitement over an egg, and a big lady Rhode Island Red, who weighed four pounds, hypocritically protested the horror of being lustfully pinned to the ground by a scrawny wreck of a rooster she could have blasted with one blow of her wing.†  (source)
  • In the dark, in the moonless jungle, the fissures are not so visible, the hypocrisies and lies less disturbing.†  (source)
  • That's called hypocrisy, you shuck-faced piece of—†  (source)
  • It seems hypocritical, perverse.†  (source)
  • Although they hurriedly called an official town meeting to pledge hypocritically their support to the President too, they stated publicly that John Quincy Adams, for his public association with Republican meetings and causes, should "have his head taken off for apostasy ...and should no longer be considered as having any communion with the party."†  (source)
  • There he sat, his very indifference speaking a nature in which there lurked no civilized hypocrisies and bland deceits.†  (source)
  • So I found it sheer hypocrisy for him to label Old Freddy's DISGUSTING and DEGRADING.†  (source)
  • In a few years, I was not only penning columns, I was writing sports books, doing radio shows, and appearing regularly on TV, spouting my opinions on rich football players and hypocritical college sports programs.†  (source)
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