Both Uses of
hypocrisy
in
The Crucible
- It is another trait we inherited from them, and it has helped to discipline us as well as to breed hypocrisy among us.†
p. 20.9 *
- Even the laxity of divorce regulations in the early years of the revolution was undoubtedly a revulsion from the nineteenth-century Victorian immobility of marriage and the consequent hypocrisy that developed from it.†
p. 36.1
Definition:
pretending to have moral standards while not living up to them