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hypocrisy

[ hi-pok-ruh-see ]

noun

plural hypocrisies.
  1. a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.
  2. a pretense of having some desirable or publicly approved attitude.
  3. an act or instance of hypocrisy.


hypocrisy

/ 丑瑟藞辫蓲办谤蓹蝉瑟 /

noun

  1. the practice of professing standards, beliefs, etc, contrary to one's real character or actual behaviour, esp the pretence of virtue and piety
  2. an act or instance of this
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of hypocrisy1

First recorded in 1175鈥1225; Middle English ipocrisie, from Old French, from Late Latin hypocrisis, from Greek 丑测辫贸办谤颈蝉颈蝉 鈥減lay acting,鈥 from 丑测辫辞办谤墨(苍别蝉迟丑补颈)虂 鈥渢o play a part, explain鈥 (from hypo- hypo- + 办谤墨虂苍别颈苍 鈥渢o distinguish, separate鈥) + -sis -sis
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To criticize her after the event was the height of hypocrisy.

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Social commentator and civil rights activist Laura Miti accused the US embassy of "hypocrisy", while also labelling the new law "tyrannical".

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You did have somebody like Mark Twain write really perceptively about the hypocrisies of that age.

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Aldrete says she's come forward now "not to shame their past," but because of "the hypocrisy of it all."

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All that makes their position look less like a principled stand against judicial activism, and more like partisan hypocrisy.

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