All 4 Uses
hypocrisy
in
A Room With A View
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- If they were hypocrites they did not know it, and their hypocrisy had every chance of setting and of becoming true.†
Chpt 8 *
- She kept it without hypocrisy in the morning, and broke it without reluctance in the afternoon.†
Chpt 15
- Their pleasantry and their piety show cracks, their wit becomes cynicism, their unselfishness hypocrisy; they feel and produce discomfort wherever they go.†
Chpt 17
- His own content was absolute, but hers held bitterness: the Honeychurches had not forgiven them; they were disgusted at her past hypocrisy; she had alienated Windy Corner, perhaps for ever.†
Chpt 20
Definitions:
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(1)
(hypocrisy) pretending to have moral standards while not living up to them
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)