How to Use hypocrisy in a Sentence

hypocrisy

noun
  • Teenagers often have a keen awareness of their parents' hypocrisies.
  • When his private letters were made public, they revealed his hypocrisy.
  • The hypocrisy is not the cause.
    — Penny Abeywardena, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • The hypocrisy was not the cause.
    — Penny Abeywardena, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • This hypocrisy was not lost on me.
    — Brittany Pettersen, Denver Post, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Such hypocrisy is not hard to find.
    — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 8 June 2026
  • Green, though, sensed some hypocrisy.
    — Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 15 Nov. 2025
  • This, too, was hubris — and hypocrisy.
    — Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 14 Sep. 2025
  • So there's kind of this mix of hope and hypocrisy.
    — Alicia Garceau, NPR, 10 Aug. 2025
  • And truth be told, there is hypocrisy on all sides.
    — Jim Defede, CBS News, 3 May 2026
  • Democrats also run the risk of hypocrisy.
    — David Weigel, semafor.com, 8 Apr. 2026
  • His call for unity is plain hypocrisy!
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The hypocrisy is glaring, of course.
    — Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The hypocrisy boggles the mind.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 22 May 2026
  • The spending hypocrisy is even worse.
    — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 June 2026
  • That's why the case for hypocrisy is, in the end, a case for hope.
    — Shadi Hamid, Time, 3 Nov. 2025
  • This hypocrisy stems from a shift in how academia is perceived.
    — Jj Jasser, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 May 2026
  • Few things slow business progress more than hypocrisy from the top.
    — Randy Illig, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
  • All the rest is hypocrisy from those who won’t admit the truth.
    — Mark Danner, The New York Review of Books, 3 June 2020
  • The hypocrisy sticks out like a Sorsby thumb.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 10 June 2026
  • Is their hypocrisy one of the most frustrating parts of all this?
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2023
  • The great scourges of our politics are zealotry and hypocrisy.
    — John Brummett, Arkansas Online, 16 June 2021
  • The craven hypocrisy of all this no longer registers for the right.
    — James Folta, Literary Hub, 27 June 2025
  • The hypocrisy is astounding to me.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The hypocrisy and malice are stunning.
    — Betsy McCaughey, Boston Herald, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Much of the comedy is stretched on the grid of power and hypocrisy.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Yet Trudeau's not the only one who can be accused of hypocrisy.
    — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The alternative would be to shriek at them for their hypocrisy.
    — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Consider the hypocrisy at work.
    — John Whitehead, Oc Register, 23 Apr. 2026
  • To the rest of the world, the hypocrisy is glaring and instructive.
    — Oona A. Hathaway, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024

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