All 8 Uses of
hypocrisy
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
- Our business is to point the finger, so to speak, at pious hypocrisy—not simple hypocrisy of the usual sort but a psychological kind, a sort of lie in the soul.†
Chpt 5
- Our business is to point the finger, so to speak, at pious hypocrisy—not simple hypocrisy of the usual sort but a psychological kind, a sort of lie in the soul.†
Chpt 5
- —and if Miss Editha had been listening she would be laughing now with old-womanish disgust at the hypocrisy of it.†
Chpt 6
- His chief belief was that most people are not merely foolish or short-sighted or lacking in imagination but consciously and viciously hypocritical.†
Chpt 10 *
- He discovered the doctrine of hypocrisy, and discovered, best of all, that if he was neurotic it was emphatically not his fault.†
Chpt 10
- And so now the great hater of hypocrisy had fallen into a life of gloomy hypocrisy.†
Chpt 10
- And so now the great hater of hypocrisy had fallen into a life of gloomy hypocrisy.†
Chpt 10
- He liked all this, especially now, when he knew it was pure hypocrisy, and the more he growled and fretted and whined, the harder she struggled to please him.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
pretending to have moral standards while not living up to them