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Definition
pretending to have moral standards while not living up to them
- 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.2.12 (68% in)
- "You are never so charming or so absurd as when you are airing some hypocrisy like that," he cried in frank enjoyment.4.36 (43% in)
- And if that was hypocrisy, let Atlanta make the most of it.4.38 (34% in)
- But it hasn't been hypocrisy that's kept me quiet.4.45 (25% in)
- 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—"5.50 (86% in)
- 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.5.55 (12% in)
There are no more uses of "hypocrisy" in Gone with the Wind.
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