Sample sentences for HYPOCRITE

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Definition

someone who violates claimed moral standards

She calls him a hypocrite for suggesting a green lifestyle except when it is personally inconvenient.

hypocrite = someone who violates claimed moral standards

She may be a hypocrite, but at least she knows the difference between right and wrong.

hypocrite = someone who violates claimed moral standards

Just think how a guilty man like that has to lie and play the hypocrite with everyone, how he has to wear a mask in the presence of those near and dear to him, even before his own wife and children.
Henrik Ibsen -- A Doll's House

hypocrite = someone who violates claimed moral standards

"You're not quitting, Mick. I mean it."

...I thought what a hypocrite he was, telling me that I had to play. What had he done? Drunk, and missed meetings, and...
Carl Deuker -- Gym Candy

hypocrite = someone who violates claimed moral standards

The hypocrite. Like he really cared what happened to her.
Rick Riordan -- The Titan's Curse

hypocrite = someone who violates claimed moral standards

hypocrites = people who violate moral standards they claim to hold

Let the old hypocrites learn to mind their own business, and leave other folks alone.
Zora Neale Hurston -- Their Eyes Were Watching God

hypocrites = people who violate moral standards they claim to hold

hypocrite = violator of claimed moral standards

hypocrite = someone who violates claimed moral standards

"You don't feel used?"
"That would make me a huge hypocrite since I was kind of using you, too."
Kody Keplinger -- The DUFF: (Designated Ugly Fat Friend)

hypocrite = someone who violates claimed moral standards

"...born hypocrites," Mrs. Merriweather was saying. At least we don't have that sin on our shoulders down here.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

hypocrites = people who violate moral standards they claim to hold

hypocrite = someone who violates claimed moral standards

hypocrite = someone who violates claimed moral standards

Would God think I was a hypocrite, praying every time I was scared?
Walter Dean Myers -- Fallen Angels

hypocrite = someone who violates claimed moral standards

...they didn't drink. At least not in public. Hypocrites.
P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Betrayed

hypocrites = people who violate moral standards they claim to hold

"A long time ago," I said, "you told me the hardest thing about being a god was not being able to help your children. You also told me that you couldn't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they made it."
"And now you know I'm a hypocrite?"
"No, you were right. Luke loved you. At the end, he realized his fate. I think he realized why you couldn't help him. He remembered what was important."
Rick Riordan -- The Last Olympian

hypocrite = someone who violates claimed moral standards

"Hypocrites..." Mrs. Merriweather was saying. At least we don't have that sin on our shoulders down here.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

hypocrites = people who violate moral standards they claim to hold

Everyone knew this about me .... but nobody knew that I was almost a hypocrite.
Kody Keplinger -- The DUFF: (Designated Ugly Fat Friend)
My world wasn't about condescending teachers and hypocrite parents and...
Katherine Applegate -- Everworld - Search For Senna

hypocrite = someone who violates claimed moral standards

I discovered quite by accident what an awful hypocrite he [Buddy Willard] was,
Sylvia Plath -- The Bell Jar

hypocrite = someone who says one thing and does another

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