hypocrisynoun [ U ]
uk/hɪˈpɒk.rɪ.si/us/hɪˈpɑː.krə.si/disapprovingC2 a situation in which someone pretends to believe something that they do not really believe, or that is the opposite of what they do or say at another time:
There's one rule for her and another rule for everyone else and it's sheer hypocrisy.
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- Her strongest criticism was reserved for the prime minister whom she accused of 'nauseating hypocrisy'.
- I'm amazed at the hypocrisy of the man - buying a foreign car after urging everyone else to buy British products.
- In constantly criticizing others for being intolerant while refusing to hear anyone else's view, they are guilty of supreme hypocrisy.
- His behaviour in this whole affair does rather savour of hypocrisy - he's certainly not without blame himself.
- Why can't politicians just be honest with themselves and stop all this hypocrisy?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Lies, lying & hypocrisy
- artifice
- bad faith
- be a pack of lies idiom
- canard
- charade
- cobbler
- flimflam
- forked tongue
- half-truth
- hogwash
- humbug
- make sth up
- polygraph
- pork pie
- porky
- post-factual
- post-truth
- propaganda
- stretch the truth idiom
- venal
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