All 6 Uses of
hypocrisy
in
The Adventures of Augie March
- I couldn't say he was being hypocritical about George.†
Chpt 4 *
- Selfish, jealous, autocratic, carp-mouth, and hypocritical.†
Chpt 6
- And it isn't even hypocritical, it's deeper than that.†
Chpt 11
- Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment.†
Chpt 11
- But I explained, and felt as usual the creep over me of legalistic hypocrisy, that it was a case of dual unionism.†
Chpt 13
- People with whom she had to struggle scared her, and what I'd call average hypocrisy, just the incidental little whiffs of the social machine, was terribly hard on her.†
Chpt 18
Definition:
pretending to have moral standards while not living up to them