hypocriticaladjective
uk/ˌhɪp.əˈkrɪt.ɪ.kəl/us/ˌhɪp.əˈkrɪt̬.ɪ.kəl/disapprovingC2 saying that you have particular moral beliefs but behaving in a way that shows these are not sincere:
Their accusations of corruption are hypocritical - they have been just as corrupt themselves.
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- It's rather hypocritical of you, telling me not to shout. I've seen you lose your temper with the children many times!
- The minister gave a hypocritical speech about the importance of family values, when we all know about his sordid affairs.
- For him to say she mustn't work so hard is a bit hypocritical, don't you think? He's a workaholic himself.
- I suppose it sounds hypocritical, but I think you should keep out of other people's business.
- Surely it is hypocritical to condemn one dictator and to support another?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Dishonest
- bad faith
- be rotten to the core idiom
- be up to no good idiom
- bent
- cowboy
- down-and-dirty
- dubious
- false
- finagle
- fishy
- malfeasance
- mendacious
- misleading
- perjure
- rich
- underhand
- unreliable
- unscrupulous
- unsporting
- weasel
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hypocritically
adverb uk/ˌhɪp.əˈkrɪt.ɪ.kəl.i/us/ˌhɪp.əˈkrɪt̬.ɪ.kəl.i/