hypocritically

[ UK /hˌɪpəkɹˈɪtɪkli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in a hypocritical manner
    he behaved hypocritically by praying piously when people were watching
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How To Use hypocritically In A Sentence

  • 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 
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 
  • Democratic slogans were hypocritically used when they permitted the future oligarchs to proceed with their conquest of property.
  • Paradoxically, or is that hypocritically, the pursuit of political power as practised by individual politicians is highly unedifying, not to say unethical.
  • Think Progress » 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.’
  • 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
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