How To Use Hypocritical In A Sentence

Their accusations of corruption are hypocritical - they have been just as corrupt themselves.
Many people find it socially and morally advantageous to hypocritically profess their religious beliefs, and to use religion to justify what they want to believe and do. Dr T.P.Chia
Of course I was wrong; it would be hypocritical to pretend otherwise.
Though she'd never been much of a nurse and it was hypocritical to pretend otherwise.
I think you have done well in avoiding the topic altogether; but between ourselves, do you really think that the refinement of manner, the censorious, hypocritical, verbal scrupulosity, which is carried so far in this "picked age" of ours, is a true sign of superior refinement of taste, and purity of morals? Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical

You watch too much fox news (the lapdog of the ultra right conservatives, who interestingly and hypocritically is on the same network that show some of the worst of the worst television has to offer.) @Mike – patriot act, was the 2002 GOP-led congress. EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - A new day….
Courtesy towards them would be insincere, hypocritical, pointless. Times, Sunday Times
Of course, many will feel scruples about criticising others for how they spend their money out of fear of sounding hypocritical. Times, Sunday Times
Many other organisations appear deeply hypocritical. Times, Sunday Times
If someone is being hypocritical then it is fair to expose that.
Of course, many will feel scruples about criticising others for how they spend their money out of fear of sounding hypocritical. Times, Sunday Times
You might say that's a bit hypocritical, coming from a woman in pants who propels herself five metres into the air on a bendy fibreglass stick. The Sun
He shows himself to be an ill-mannered, thin-skinned, easily flattered narcissistic ignoramus, given to stupid jokes, banal observations, casual rudeness and hypocritical pieties.
These sentiments would strike any right-minded person as repulsive, hypocritical rubbish.
We aren't like the local autocrats, hypocritical and thieving to their rotten cores.
Public support depends in part on disguising the reality of war (hence the hypocritical hoo-ha about the ‘parading’ of prisoners) and on calculating the acceptability of death.
It would be hypocritical for many politicians to say that it is morally reprehensible to take drugs when they themselves once smoked dope or took coke. Times, Sunday Times
Her marriage to her campaign manager had landed her with some heavy baggage, if only in the eyes of those who considered the Catholic Church's policy on annulments hypocritical.
Brewer fumes at the oil-services giant's tactics, which he calls hypocritical and reminiscent of the rhetorical handsprings of the Forbes.com: News
Of course I was wrong; it would be hypocritical to pretend otherwise.
This kind of intolerance is what makes today's Liberals (in power and on message boards) incredibly hypocritical. Democrats point to 'Smoking Tweet' in GOP stalling health care
To equate abortion w/alcoholism is dishonest, mean-spirited and hypocritical. Think Progress » Focus on the Family to air a second ad during Super Bowl pre-game.
He defends murder, since it is hypocritical to condemn it if you accept the far worse cruelty of war. The Times Literary Supplement
Mired in allegations of financial irregularity during his time in government, which he has rejected as a Labour smear, he is one of the least favoured in the party membership, where he is regarded as, at best, hypocritical and two-faced.
At the same time we hypocritically kiss up to totalitarian regimes such as Saud Arabia. Ahmadinejad accuses Obama of interfering in election
They divide girls into two categories, bad and good: the bad ones have obvious functions, and the good ones are to be married; but good ones, once pinned or engaged (and the official definition of being pinned is "being engaged to be engaged") must loosen up immediately or run the risk of being considered cold or hypocritical. Sex and the College Girl
No glum faces, no fake sincerity or hypocritical concern for those he left behind; just an excuse to celebrate the crazy fool.
an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time
People suffering from the Lake Wobegon Effect are hypocritical and hypercritical. John B. Townsend II: The Lake Wobegon Effect and the Cell Phone Ban
This is serious business, and to express regret at the severity of his punishment is a shade hypocritical.
And when I hear them admit to smoking pot, I wonder why they hypocritically fund the drug war.
But Shakespeare makes him live with himself and the consequences of his human weakness (not hypocrisy -- the Duke is hypocritical when he plays bawd to Mariana, but Angelo knows exactly what he's doing). Measure For Measure
Of course I was wrong; it would be hypocritical to pretend otherwise.
The world is a zoo of thinking, ethical, selfish, greedy and hypocritical animals - men. The world is full of good and bad people, passionate and good-hearted people, mean and evil-hearted people, honest and unscrupulous people. Dr T.P.Chia
It is as hypocritical, as chutzpadik, as his essay is absurd. The Australian | News |
This relates to American exceptionalism, which makes great allowances for seemingly hypocritical or duplicitous behavior as conducted by our leaders.
Coburn, Ensign and Wamp should all resign as they have hypocritically attacked others for sexual improprities. A third 'C Street' Republican embroiled in sex scandal
Many people find it socially and morally advantageous to hypocritically profess their religious beliefs, and to use religion to justify what they want to believe and do. Dr T.P.Chia
Imitating the canting voice of a hypocritical preacher, Douglass then gave a several-paragraph sermon based on the principle that obedience to the slavemaster is obedience to God.
Get rid of this hypocritical fornicator IMMEDIATELY! First on the Ticker: GOP support for Sanford impeachment grows
How's that for a load of guilty conscience-fuelled, hypocritical codswallop?
hypocritical praise
Most orthodox historians think that comments like these are mere hypocritical cant.
They are accused of being legalist, obsessive about detail, hypocritical and self-serving.
Nevertheless, to recur; I cannot but observe, that these tame spirits stand a poor chance in a fairly offensive war with such of us mad fellows as are above all law, and scorn to sculk behind the hypocritical screen of reputation. Clarissa Harlowe
The palpable anger and sadness at a village fair, usually an occasion for gaiety, was a poignant commentary on the hypocritical times we live in.
Hypocrisy is at its worst; for we not only persecute bigotedly but sincerely in the name of the cure-mongering witchcraft we do believe in, but callously and hypocritically in the name of the Evangelical creed that our rulers privately smile at as the Italian patricians of the fifth century smiled at Jupiter and Venus. The Revolutionist’s Handbook
Young Americans came to view religion, according to one survey, as judgmental, homophobic, hypocritical, and too political.49 All these were premonitory signs that a second major aftershock was about to roil the American religious landscape. American Grace
Told her not to be so grabby ( v hypocritical as was secretly quite excited myself). AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
Honesty is an expensive virtue, and no one is really 100% honest. People are by nature half- honest and half- hypocritical, and they naturally choose to be hypocritical if doing so is beneficial to them. There is always a constant struggle between honesty and dishonesty, but nothing can replace honesty in a pleasant, healthy and happy life. Dr T.P.Chia
So begone, hypocritical puritans, and let the rest of us get on with enjoying our daily dose of sex and gossip.
I also wonder that if the post had been written by a man, whether people would be as quick say that it's OK be "hypocritical" in desiring someone who's culturally-approved skinny when they're not. Ask Professor Foxy: Does My Size and Not Flirting Keep Me Alone? - Feministing
It feels a bit hypocritical and pretty outrageous. The Sun
Now there is a phrase bantered about by the Repugs and Bush Adminstration, but ever so hypocritical they do the bait and switch. Hillary And Obama To Vote Against Cloture On FISA
Bleeding-heart liberals, hypocritical millennials, conceited high-rollers - no one escapes with their dignity intact. Times, Sunday Times
Ant said: 'It is hypocritical really. The Sun
Of course I was wrong; it would be hypocritical to pretend otherwise.
he behaved hypocritically by praying piously when people were watching
Their accusations of corruption are hypocritical - they have been just as corrupt themselves.
But there isn't much that's more hypocritical than anti-abortionists murdering, and it disgusts me that in their moral universe and mine, some points overlap.
Of course, every American is not always ignorant, hypocritical and obedient.
And it would be easy to be hypocritical and insincere. Times, Sunday Times
It's hypocritical in the sense that these people all lie yet proclaim themselves virtuous and honest, yes.
I'm a dyed in the wool Dem., but this Lincoln gal is just a totally hypocritical sleazebag. Lincoln will not return Goldman Sachs donations
A film condemning violence only to not show it in its full, bloody, gory glory would be hypocritical.
It will be a cold very cold day in - ell before i ever vote for Obama, any other African American would be fine, but not that sneaky, hypocritical lying racist. Clinton camp presses electability
But the reasons, one has to admit, are hypocritical and sometimes contradictory.
It's also being quite hypocritical recently in it's "all of a sudden" interest in the support of caribbean newspapers (in regards to PATI) considering that the Gazette has always purposely avoided even the idea of bermuda being considered a part of the Caribbean. Bermuda's Royal Gazette is Not the 'Paper of the People'
The judge added: 'I hope your realise that what you did was deeply hypocritical. Times, Sunday Times
It would be hypocritical unethical, in fact for the paymaster to shrug off responsibility.
Third, despite his unfortunate history as the ultimate polarizer who hypocritically led the illegitimate partisan effort to impeach Bill Clinton (the bad Newt), in fact, Gingrich has also demonstrated an ability to reach across the aisle to work with Democrats and liberals on real solutions to real problems (the good Newt). Lanny Davis: Newt Gingrich -- Don't Count Him Out So Fast
At the moment, our self-righteous claim that we are here to ensure accountability is so screamingly hypocritical it's our credibility that's shot to pieces.
Let me get this straight, yet another hypocritical "christian conservative" right-winger is more interested in money than in good governance or actually following through on her campaign promises? Johnston: Palin wanted to take the money, 'forget everything else'
Let me get this straight, yet another hypocritical "christian conservative" right-winger is more interested in money than in good governance or actually following through on her campaign promises? Johnston: Palin wanted to take the money, 'forget everything else'
But that seems pretty hypocritical to me. Christianity Today
Yet Cadette was even more incensed by the hypocritical reaction of the authorities.
Good and honest people are equally vulnerable to being hypocritical and deceptive when self- interests are involved – sometimes even honest people have to pay the price of acting hypocritically or unscrupulously. Dr T.P.Chia
Typically, any article about the model contains hypocritical comments about her not being the accepted standard of beauty.
Proposition 36 will not heal the hypocritical heart of a nation that extols the empty pleasures of consumerism while excoriating the unsanctioned ecstasies of illegal drugs.
Indeed, you engage in precisely this sort of rhetoric yourself while hypocritically decrying the heated rhetoric of the left.
So the Congress sometimes rakes up the issue of secularism, which is so hypocritical that it is funny.
Which is why it also exposes politicians to one of the biggest dangers of all: being seen as insincere and hypocritical. Times, Sunday Times
The world is a zoo of thinking, ethical, selfish, greedy and hypocritical animals - men. The world is full of good and bad people, passionate and good-hearted people, mean and evil-hearted people, honest and unscrupulous people. Dr T.P.Chia
The yellow press will harp on it, hypocritically.
Maybe that's hypocritical, and maybe it's just a part of the aging process - as a once-controversial practice becomes accepted, a new group of upstarts comes along.
It would be hypocritical for many politicians to say that it is morally reprehensible to take drugs when they themselves once smoked dope or took coke. Times, Sunday Times
Any cant about representing farming is hollow and hypocritical.
He has become part of the establishment that he attacks, which is deeply hypocritical. Times, Sunday Times
He described Gueret's views as a "full-frontal, hypocritical, misinformed and gratuitously insulting attack".
Hypocritical humility is the highest form of lying. Honest arrogance is the lowest form self-promotion. Dr T.P.Chia
she may be detached or even unfeeling but at least she's not hypocritically effusive
Most others are relishing in pointing out your hypocrisy here - you are being hypocritical, but that doesn't change how much pain you're feeling.
Honesty is an expensive virtue, and no one is really 100% honest. People are by nature half- honest and half- hypocritical, and they naturally choose to be hypocritical if doing so is beneficial to them. There is always a constant struggle between honesty and dishonesty, but nothing can replace honesty in a pleasant, healthy and happy life. Dr T.P.Chia
It would be hypocritical to assert that the public sector provides better standards.
Their love affair with this hypocritical phoney is sickening. Palin defends Obama birth certificate inquiries
Mr Hislop, who has been fighting the so-called gagging order and challenged the injunction only last week, condemned the suppression of reporting as "a touch hypocritical". WalesOnline - Home
They were as puritanical, censorious, and hypocritical as any priest-ridden Third Worlders could be, and in private -- because Buddy said he knew their most intimate thoughts -- every last one of them was racist. Beard
If someone temporarily forced him into a direct look by speaking to him, then this extremely unharmonious face, jagging angularly in all its features, would become somewhat reserved, wily, shifting, and downright hypocritical. Archive 2007-12-01
He will be remembered for little more than handing over huge swathes of power to the EU without the whole-hearted consent of the British people, presiding over a poorish collection of Tory MPs of whom a fair few proved to be personally flawed and for his hypocritical affair with, of all people, the appalling Edwina Currie. Cherie & Gordon Trash Smuggo's 'Legacy'
For the Conservative Leader to suggest the law is illegitimate because its supporters aren't federalist is outrageous and hypocritical.
It is equally ironic and hypocritical that the "Hindus" who champion this censorship also propound that "Hinduism" is a robust and muscular tradition that can win any battle against imagined enemies historical or contemporary, real or otherwise yet they must nonetheless censor anything or anybody that threatens their delusion. Deepak Sarma: Intolerant Hindus, Censorship And Mohaśāstras (Confusing Texts)
He argues their wealth was the result of neo-liberal policies of the former Howard Government, which Mr Rudd had since "hypocritically" slammed. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
From time to time, these charmlessly hypocritical aspects of Saudi society have been revealed whenever people who imagine they are above the law find themselves in British courts: domestic servants being assaulted with irons and locked in cupboards, for example. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
A hypocritical, pompous, cowardly and sanctimonious bully, Carp makes his heavy-footed way through life completely blind to his own faults and acutely aware of the faults in others.
Politicians are so hypocritical - they preach about 'family values' while they all seem to be having affairs.
Told her not to be so grabby ( v hypocritical as was secretly quite excited myself). AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
Western powers for what he called hypocritical and dangerous policies that can only lead to nuclear proliferation, according to remarks broadcast on state-run Press TV. WN.com - Articles related to US says old treaty disputes with Russia have no bearing on new nuclear arms treaty
This will look deeply hypocritical and wasteful to the taxpayers who are picking up the tab. The Sun
Rather than hiding behind hypocritical pro-market rhetoric, it is time to admit they have embraced their very own entitlement-boom that rivals the dreams of any European welfarist. Ron Davis: The Republican Nanny State
Fox News ambusher Griff Jenkins hypocritically cowers from interview: ‘Call the media relations people.’ Think Progress » Fox News ambusher Griff Jenkins hypocritically cowers from interview: ‘Call the media relations people.’
He was hostile to their hypocritical sophistries.
Many people find it socially and morally advantageous to hypocritically profess their religious beliefs, and to use religion to justify what they want to believe and do. Dr T.P.Chia
NONE of these fascist dictators have ever put on a uniform. for them to sit and say it was a blow to the military shows how stupid they really are. why would anyone expect ’stupid’ to understand what hekerry was saying. if anyone owes an apology it is this criminal, hypocritical nazi admin. for invading, occupying and murdering thousands of innocent people for their own self interests. and all in the name of OIL. Think Progress » Kerry Says ‘I’m Sorry’ on MSNBC, Snow Still Claiming He Hasn’t Apologized
Ms. Chang is being hypocritical when she says that President Obama should not consider himself black simply because that's how society views him - she is insisting he identify as biracial because that's how she WANTS society to view him, or at least because that's how she views him. Obama's 2010 Census racial identification
I just found it a bit hypocritical. The Sun
These so-called "conservatives" hypocritically point to others 'mistakes and do the same thing themselves – Republican double standard. A third 'C Street' Republican embroiled in sex scandal
Proposition 36 will not heal the hypocritical heart of a nation that extols the empty pleasures of consumerism while excoriating the unsanctioned ecstasies of illegal drugs.
The questions are unclear and the process reeks of hypocritical manipulation.
They are weak, petulant, hypocritical, disunited, duplicitous, sometimes anti-Semitic, and often anti-American appeasers.
He publicly excoriated the film director Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern, House of Flying Daggers) and the artist Cai Guo Qiang (the man whose firework dragon failed to ignite on the Thames at the millennium) for creating the opening ceremony, which he termed "a visual crap-pile of phony affection and hypocritical unctuousness . . . an encyclopedia of spiritual subjugation". Ai Weiwei: the dissident artist
Wish I could have been there… so I suppose it'd be hypocritical to whine about the low turnout, but cripes.
To make such outrageous claims with the only possible goal being to rile up the masses (a strategy attempted during the campaign as well), and then to advise "restraint" is beyond hypocritical. Palin urges restraint at town hall meetings
He hypocritically demands his colleagues maintain journalistic standards while flouting them himself.
Rarely has the true face of our bloodthirsty, dishonest and hypocritical rulers been revealed so clearly.
Honesty is an expensive virtue, and no one is really 100% honest. People are by nature half- honest and half- hypocritical, and they naturally choose to be hypocritical if doing so is beneficial to them. There is always a constant struggle between honesty and dishonesty, but nothing can replace honesty in a pleasant, healthy and happy life. Dr T.P.Chia
It would be equally mistaken and hypocritical to offer uncritical acceptance of the new order.
I'd rather have an honest gay who is comfortable with his/her sexuality than a slithery, snaky, whiny, hypocritical, philandering, lying, thieving mark snafu-rd for my governonr. Sanford accused of smear campaign against Bauer
The negation of the negation is something like faith revealed as lies (which is why we revile hypocritical priests and pastors so very much). Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Plotting for the Severely Right Brained
The Rabari are not so much hypocritical in their attitudes to breaking the Hindu code of vegetarianism as low-key.
Learn from this in future not to extinguish your spirit even for a moment during your prayer; pray in spirit and truth, unremittingly, and not flattering the Lord during prayer by one single word -- that is, not pronouncing a single word feignedly, hypocritically; let your prayer be only the expression of truth, the mouthpiece of the Holy Ghost, and do not let it serve by a single word the enemy's lie, nor be in any way the organ of the Devil. My Life in Christ, or Moments of Spiritual Serenity and Contemplation, of Reverent Feeling, of Earnest Self-Amendment, and of Peace in God
This in turn led to my somewhat hypocritical agreement about emotional children.
The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth. Che Guevara
So the New Atheists 'claims that theism is dangerous because it is illogical are hysterical and hypocritical nonsense. Contentment
Which is why it also exposes politicians to one of the biggest dangers of all: being seen as insincere and hypocritical. Times, Sunday Times
To begrudge them the right to choose their own government via the ballot box is hypocritical in the extreme.
Watch this video, and other videos featuring the wit and wisdom aka, inarticulate hypocrisy, or is it hypocritical inarticulateness? of Hurt, then compare to Perriello and decide for yourself. Robert Hurt: Inarticulate Hypocrite, As Always
The way in which Longus excites the sensual desires of the lovers by means of licentious experiments going always only to the verge of gratification, betrays an abominably hypocritical _raffinement_ [331] which reveals in the most disagreeable manner that the naïveté of this idyllist is a premeditated artifice and he himself nothing but a sophist. Primitive Love and Love-Stories
At an off-the-record seminar organised by a German think-tank recently, judges said punishing corruption severely would be hypocritical and harsh.
There's such an imbalance that for them to say lawyers shouldn't advertise for meritorious claims is a bit hypocritical.
And it would be easy to be hypocritical and insincere. Times, Sunday Times
It was about breaking away from hypocritical sexual values.
It merely suggests that Ford, who campaigns as a church-goer is also, hypocritically, a bed-hopping bachelor. Sound Politics: The soft bigotry of low expectations
If it is, then his comeback should be welcomed, because he does have an opportunity to do something positive, even against the inevitable background of sanctimonious and hypocritical noise.
Trampling in stilettos over her father's reputation, she reveals him as a drunken, hypocritical philanderer with a beastly temper.
I have had a billet-doux from a woman of sixty, which has given me the spleen to that degree, I could out-rail a hypocritical fanatic. The Beau Defeated: or, The Lucky Younger Brother
He senses that Europe's concerns aren't getting a hearing in America because Europe bleats with a voice which is both confused and hypocritical.
The film is more than unusual in its attempt to connect society's dysfunction and popular misery with the actions of a hypocritical, mendacious ruling elite.
Raging against men who try to protect their privacy in such situations seems a touch hypocritical. Times, Sunday Times
This will look deeply hypocritical and wasteful to the taxpayers who are picking up the tab. The Sun
Last year, Obama sanctimoniously railed against nondisclosing groups, and this year his brazenly hypocritical operatives started one for him," said Jonathan Collegio, a spokesman for American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS. Key Fund-Raiser for Obama Gets Off to a Slow Start
Overall, Wittenberg portrays him as a petty, hypocritical, mendacious man whose primary focus was self-promotion.
In spite of its amateurish direction and hypocritical preachment, it broke even.
Bleeding-heart liberals, hypocritical millennials, conceited high-rollers - no one escapes with their dignity intact. Times, Sunday Times
Nothing in the email in actually controversial, except to ignorant or hypocritical lawyers and other laypeople; the dean is a pretentious fool. The Volokh Conspiracy » Judging a Person Based on a Single Forwarded Personal E-Mail
If someone temporarily forced him into a direct look by speaking to him, then this extremely unharmonious face, jagging angularly in all its features, would become somewhat reserved, wily, shifting, and downright hypocritical. Enowning
The lack of transparency contributes to the cynicism and hypocritical views.
Second, in the pious and hypocritical words of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, ‘we live in a country of laws where there can be severe consequences for those who break them.’
Bill and Alice's identity crisis hits bottom too fast because they are never developed beyond an exotic porcelain doll and an oblivious bourgeois mate, what Victorians might have called a hysteric and a hypocritical prig.
Such an amount of good will and neighborly kindness also went into the mess, that I never could find the heart to refuse, but always received it with thanks, sipped it with hypocritical relish while he remained, and whipped it into the slop-jar the instant he departed, thereby gratifying him, securing one rousing laugh in the doziest hour of the night, and no one was the worse for the transaction but the pigs. Hospital Sketches
He said: 'It looks a bit hypocritical to me. The Sun
The great barrator made no hypocritical pretence of desiring peace. The Drama Of Three Hundred & Sixty-Five Days Scenes In The Great War
Honesty is an expensive virtue, and no one is really 100% honest. People are by nature half- honest and half- hypocritical, and they naturally choose to be hypocritical if doing so is beneficial to them. There is always a constant struggle between honesty and dishonesty, but nothing can replace honesty in a pleasant, healthy and happy life. Dr T.P.Chia
Honesty is an expensive virtue, and no one is really 100% honest. People are by nature half- honest and half- hypocritical, and they naturally choose to be hypocritical if doing so is beneficial to them. There is always a constant struggle between honesty and dishonesty, but nothing can replace honesty in a pleasant, healthy and happy life. Dr T.P.Chia
Honesty is an expensive virtue, and no one is really 100% honest. People are by nature half- honest and half- hypocritical, and they naturally choose to be hypocritical if doing so is beneficial to them. There is always a constant struggle between honesty and dishonesty, but nothing can replace honesty in a pleasant, healthy and happy life. Dr T.P.Chia
One of the silliest, most idly thought out, most casually hypocritical schemes that the mind of even military man has ever conceived. MOONDROP TO MURDER
The conservative Christian leadership includes both hypocritical clerics like Robertson, Falwell, Dobson and Phelps, and neocon laic politicians like Bush, Ashcroft, Frisch and DeLay. THREE TYPES OF CONSERVATIVES
May's bloodbath in the eastern town of Andizhan placed increasing strain on the US/Uzbek relationship and prompted criticism that the Bush administration was being hypocritical with its talk of spreading democracy around the world. Daimnation!: Out of Uzbekistan
In her strongest comments on the subject to date, Clinton is accusing Iran of hypocritically trying to align itself with popular uprisings in some North African and Middle Eastern states, while trying to thwart democracy movements at home and in its key ally Syria. Clinton Says Iran Seeks to 'Hijack' Mideast Protests
He finds them incompatible; one is good, right, and pure, the other corrupt, evil, and hypocritical.
Honesty is an expensive virtue, and no one is really 100% honest. People are by nature half- honest and half- hypocritical, and they naturally choose to be hypocritical if doing so is beneficial to them. There is always a constant struggle between honesty and dishonesty, but nothing can replace honesty in a pleasant, healthy and happy life. Dr T.P.Chia
People often hypocritically profess their beliefs for personal interests, and many always do things that are inconsistent with their beliefs. Dr T.P.Chia
There's something both hypocritically and blasphemously charming about a band whose right-hand man chews a lit cigarette on stage trust me, I've seen it, whose album art features the same bandmember brandishing an almost finished cancer stick and staring into a projected crucifix, and whose mohawked keyboard player quite literally jumps on his musical instrument while playing it. Judah Joseph: REVIEW: Foxy Shazam, The Church Of Rock And Roll
In everything one finds this frank acceptance of twin values which are not expected to have anything in common: on the one hand a quite unclouded, quite unhypocritical assumption of transcendent theory “high ideals”; on the other a simultaneous acceptance of catchpenny realities. Archive 2009-09-01
But there isn't much that's more hypocritical than anti-abortionists murdering, and it disgusts me that in their moral universe and mine, some points overlap.
He also took a sideswipe at the media for ‘hammering’ him in the past week in a hypocritical fashion.
Told her not to be so grabby ( v hypocritical as was secretly quite excited myself). AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
So, George Soros isn't happy people legitimately oppose Obama's hypocritical "majoritarian" pen stroke? Propeller Most Popular Stories
TZN: Some fans have say that Wolverine acts "hypocritical" at points in the show in going after Cyclops for doing things on his own, but then going off alone to investigate Weapon X. JOHNSON: You're likely referring to the episode "eX.essive Force" which aired on Nicktoons recently. Toon Zone News
In one episode, normally sweet-natured Aunt Bee (the wonderful Frances Bavier, who won an Emmy for the role) has to give him a stern talking-to for being hypocritical and caught up in appearances.
Soon everyone will be as dysfunctionally hypocritical as we are.
Plus with a successful Obama first term, more states turning blue - perhaps these guys should scrap the whole hypocritical "conversative" view and start from scratch. The Caucus
Young Americans came to view religion, according to one survey, as judgmental, homophobic, hypocritical, and too political.49 All these were premonitory signs that a second major aftershock was about to roil the American religious landscape. American Grace
Or was he just a hypocritical, self-righteous, white-collar crimebuster who dropped $100,000 at an escort service coincidentally under federal wiretap? Politics Daily
She describes this binding of her brother's death with a call to arms as insincere, hypocritical and exploitative.
Of course I don't think that the purveyors of ID really think this way, it's just a deceitful and hypocritical marketing strategy.
That said, let us not ignore the violent and hypocritical rhetoric of Hamas, and while they are certainly the underdog, they are far from the doe-eyed innocents they would like everyone to see them as. 789 and counting*
It was a protest against what he calls the hypocritical policies of the United States, which has supported Mubarak despite his autocratic rule. Longtime activist welcomes thousands of Egyptians to his cause
After purging his government of them, it's a tad hypocritical to run on their record - and it's a tad dishonest as well - because they aren't in charge anymore.
It has the ring of casuistry, of the often hypocritical moralist who declares unctuously that, while he hates the sin, he loves the sinner.
But…if the beltway characters, pundits, talking heads and so called journalists continue their insidious brand of hypocritical and un-comely rectitudinous invective toward la Hil, I shall be inclined to support her, in her, albeit seemingly opportunistic quest, for the Democratic nomination for president. Firedoglake » Clinton Rules
Overall, the moral excuses for war we have been fed are at best inconsistent, illogical and hypocritical.
Good and honest people are equally vulnerable to being hypocritical and deceptive when self- interests are involved – sometimes even honest people have to pay the price of acting hypocritically or unscrupulously. Dr T.P.Chia
But coming from someone with mad staring eyes, and who writes like Job in a seriously bad mood, this is all a bit hypocritical.
Honesty is an expensive virtue, and no one is really 100% honest. People are by nature half- honest and half- hypocritical, and they naturally choose to be hypocritical if doing so is beneficial to them. There is always a constant struggle between honesty and dishonesty, but nothing can replace honesty in a pleasant, healthy and happy life. Dr T.P.Chia
That would be deeply hypocritical. Times, Sunday Times
It's kind of hypocritical, considering how "lenient" they are with their own pedophile priests. Bishops slam 'unacceptable' health care bill
This hypocritical double standard becomes abundantly clear when we hear frequent faux cries of concern about the safety of supplements and nutritionals while certain pharmaceuticals that are documented to have taken many lives remain on the medical market. Larry Malerba, D.O. : How Today's Medical Apartheid Is Sinking the Health Care System
Claims that procreator Americans are better off than are nonbelievers are hypocritical since the latter are the targets of considerable bigotry, and are contradicted by the truth that social problems tend to be most elevated in the more creationist regions -- lifespans are actually decreasing in parts of the Bible belt. Bringing Creationism to Heel Requires Making America Less Socially Darwinistic
It would be hypocritical of me to have a church wedding when I don't believe in God.
Courtesy towards them would be insincere, hypocritical, pointless. Times, Sunday Times

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