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Sentence Examples It would be equally mistaken and hypocritical to offer uncritical acceptance of the new order. The questions are unclear and the process reeks of hypocritical manipulation. The lack of transparency contributes to the cynicism and hypocritical views. I don't see it as being hypocritical, but rather as having the best of both worlds. This is serious business, and to express regret at the severity of his punishment is a shade hypocritical. They are accused of being legalist, obsessive about detail, hypocritical and self-serving. These sentiments would strike any right-minded person as repulsive, hypocritical rubbish. If Canada continues on its present route it runs the risk of being viewed as hypocritical. America is being denounced as arrantly hypocritical for first pretending to promote democracy, then trying to crush its results. In one episode, normally sweet-natured Aunt Bee has to give him a stern talking-to for being hypocritical and caught up in appearances. Typically, any article about the model contains hypocritical comments about her not being the accepted standard of beauty. We aren't like the local autocrats, hypocritical and thieving to their rotten cores. Rarely has the true face of our bloodthirsty, dishonest and hypocritical rulers been revealed so clearly. Trampling in stilettos over her father's reputation, she reveals him as a drunken, hypocritical philanderer with a beastly temper. There's such an imbalance that for them to say lawyers shouldn't advertise for meritorious claims is a bit hypocritical. 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. Their branch of show business is depicted as hypocritical and peopled by two-faced backstabbers only really interested in themselves. But the reasons, one has to admit, are hypocritical and sometimes contradictory. One commenter has even suggested Aaron's lack of posting on animal vivisection in the past somehow means he is being hypocritical now. I have included my views because to flippantly criticise without offering solutions is hopelessly and odiously hypocritical. Show More Sentences It has the ring of casuistry, of the often hypocritical moralist who declares unctuously that, while he hates the sin, he loves the sinner. 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. So the Congress sometimes rakes up the issue of secularism, which is so hypocritical that it is funny. Of course, every American is not always ignorant, hypocritical and obedient. I'm definitely an incrementalist, and if that entails being hypocritical and shifting principles to a certain extent, so be it. In spite of its amateurish direction and hypocritical preachment, it broke even. Their bleating about their efforts regarding problem gambling are absolutely, completely and utterly, despicably hypocritical. To begrudge them the right to choose their own government via the ballot box is hypocritical in the extreme. The man is a menace to everything he once professed to represent, which makes him either delusional or hypocritical. Overall, Wittenberg portrays him as a petty, hypocritical, mendacious man whose primary focus was self-promotion. But coming from someone with mad staring eyes, and who writes like Job in a seriously bad mood, this is all a bit hypocritical. Unless it raises the age of consent, it would be vastly hypocritical to deny such a payment to older teenagers. So what can we do to help developing countries in a way that is not condescending and hypocritical? This in turn led to my somewhat hypocritical agreement about emotional children. At the moment, our self-righteous claim that we are here to ensure accountability is so hypocritical it's our credibility that's shot to pieces. The attitude taken by the Post highlights the hypocritical and unprincipled character of its criticisms of the Bush administration. It's hypocritical in the sense that these people all lie yet proclaim themselves virtuous and honest, yes. The history of trade negotiations is littered with hypocritical rhetoric and squalid deals. Most orthodox historians think that comments like these are mere hypocritical cant. They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering. Show More Sentences Yet Cadette was even more incensed by the hypocritical reaction of the authorities. With his first film, he turned ferociously on his tormentors, mocking their hypocritical views on freedom. 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. They are weak, petulant, hypocritical, disunited, duplicitous, sometimes anti-Semitic, and often anti-American appeasers. Overall, the moral excuses for war we have been fed are at best inconsistent, illogical and hypocritical. Anyhow I for one whilst disgusted am not surprised at this goverment's hypocritical illiberalism. How's that for a load of guilty conscience-fuelled, hypocritical codswallop? For the Conservative Leader to suggest the law is illegitimate because its supporters aren't federalist is outrageous and hypocritical. As usual, it is dressed up in hypocritical language about rural ways of life. He wonders if I am not being just a wee bit hypocritical in my praise of honest, humble work. On spending and economic issues, he was atrocious and hypocritical in all the ways that a Republican can be. That man is not living in the real world or he wouldn't come up with such hypocritical solutions. You wished to know nothing of their messages, combating against them with that hypocritical faith that you have as your theories and religions. Because the games are being held in Ireland, they have brought the most toe-curlingly hypocritical self-congratulatory creeps in the country babbling into the limelight. Any other proposal is anything from hypocritical to highly suspicious and a smoke-screen for unlawful interests. So when they tumble off, the fact that we cheer and sneer is awful, hypocritical, and deeply, sometimes savagely unkind. Republicanism has become a southern gothic farce of paranoia, resentment, scandal, and hypocritical moralism. 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. Any cant about representing farming is hollow and hypocritical. Show More Sentences So this moral isolation of some States by hypocritical others I do not think is the path to success. This hypocritical policy undermines a 2,000-year tradition of Vietnamese Buddhism, which has remained staunchly independent of political powers. And as for calls for international investigations, they represent the usual hypocritical nonsense that will go nowhere. It is better to make a sincere denial that is born of doubt or ignorance than a hypocritical affirmation of a falsehood. 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. But the hypocritical Pharisees made her stand in their presence and pointed fingers at her as if they were judges, about to throw stones at her. They are full of bombast and hypocritical interest, without ever naming who produces, spreads and uses these weapons. The so-called compromise approach seems particularly hypocritical and is simply an indirect means of authorising therapeutic cloning. However, if you are not living for Christ, that behavior will be obvious, and sharing Christ will appear hypocritical to others. 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. Consequently, the criticisms over the very idea of Operation 'Cast Lead' seem to be just hypocritical. Thus the widow is contrasted with the hypocritical scribes and their snobbish greed. For it to be otherwise is not only hypocritical, it is also reduces the value and impact of what unions have to say. 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. Her attitude towards her ageing former colleagues has been cruel, vindictive and hypocritical. What a horrible little hypocritical man the fat pie eater is. A standard charge against the EU promoting democracy is that the union itself is not democratic – hence Brussels is at best hypocritical. This relates to American exceptionalism, which makes great allowances for seemingly hypocritical or duplicitous behavior as conducted by our leaders. He believed that anti-grouse-shoot campaigners were driven by a hypocritical distaste for those who take pleasure in killing wild birds. Soon everyone will be as dysfunctionally hypocritical as we are. Show More Sentences The hypocritical blamer is perhaps the paradigm example of someone who lacks the moral standing to blame. For members of the opposition to cast aspersions on that person and suggest that somehow the person is partisan is hypocritical. We cannot hide out and be hypocritical, thinking that we are here by the grace of the Holy Spirit and thanks to a few prayers. I therefore had no reservations in voting against this mediocre and hypocritical report which should bring shame upon its authors. He is golden-haired, golden-tongued and charismatic but he cannot avoid his own hypocritical impulses. The government is being highly hypocritical, but that's nothing new from this group of untalented amateurs. I don't eat because the noise other people make with the munching and the slurping and rattling bags winds me up, so I think it would be hypocritical if I ate, too. Wall Street competitors, speaking privately and perhaps simply showing they are jealous, see it as hypocritical. The report is full of hypocritical expressions couched in wearisome, waffling language. Not to tender it would be mean, inconsistent, hypocritical and self-defeating. But isn't it hypocritical to be so anti-artsy fartsy when you are artsy fartsy? The double standard of sexualization is hypocritical at best and ineffectively vindictive at worse. For the Jihadists, infidels like us are cowardly, hypocritical, corrupt, indifferent to the suffering of others and inclined to betrayal. In return, the summoner shares the tale of a hypocritical friar, who is more interested in food and women than parishioners' souls. These are devious, hypocritical tactics to undermine women's dignity and basic rights. What's more, coming from a man who is renowned for his bullyboy tactics, Brown's calls for calm are hypocritical to say the least. But it is a bit hypocritical for Member States to allow millions to be spent promoting gambling and at the same time allow nobody else to play the game. But Mr. Blecker said he did not believe there was anything hypocritical or contradictory about calling for Mr. Holton's execution and then having misgivings. Does the minister's hypocritical attitude on this matter not reflect the general attitude of this government, which talks a fine talk but does not think twice about reneging on commitments at the earliest opportunity? It is kind of interesting and somewhat ironic, and completely hypocritical, that somehow or another just a year or two ago those separatists were really good separatists and now apparently they are bad separatists. Show More Sentences Because I am not hypocritical, Mr. Speaker, I am not formally asking you to order the parliamentary secretary to withdraw or to apologize for this hurtful insult. It is a hypocritical situation, if you ask me, because these companies now have a finger in all sorts of pies and are paving the way for the free market. The report calls coercively on the Cyprus Government to accept it, as did Messrs Oostlander, Verheugen and others today, proving how hypocritical their proclamations are about respect for international law. We could not have expected anything better from the Italian Government, supported by a boorishly Communist left and by a deceitful and hypocritical centre-left. The communiqué makes a hypocritical affirmation of respect for the Irish rejection of Lisbon, and then immediately sets about insisting, through the coded language of these documents, that the Irish fall into line. Some of you may be chapfallen by Imran's call for civil disobedience when he himself claims to be this proud proponent of abiding by all laws. Must seem hypocritical right? The proletarian tragedy of Il Tabarro throws into relief both the hypocritical aristocratic ethics that immure Suor Angelica in her convent, and the bourgeois grubbiness of Gianni Schicchi. Now we have a hypocritical proposal to give aid, the aid which was previously banned, to what are now privately-owned shipyards as their only means of salvation. It is a considerable achievement, if we take into account that he has had to cope with a scenario created by the Commission, which, as stated by a previous speaker, is plainly hypocritical. His pathetic mouthpiece, who publicly disassociated his country from the international community just now, has amplified that call in the most cynical and hypocritical way. So I could, presumably, freely take aim in its well-fenced online garden of gentility at prating, hypocritical Californian prigs, but not at prating, hypocritical American prigs. Under these circumstances, the pacifying declarations on humanitarian aid by the European institutions are shamefully hypocritical and we have no intention of backing them, which is why we abstained from the vote. It would be a short-sighted attitude which is largely hypocritical and out of keeping with the irreversible prospect of an extension of the Union's competences and geographical enlargement of the Union's strategy. And of all the things that Disraeli was — mocker and opportunist, hired gun and flatterer, gadfly and courtier — the one thing that no one could ever call him was sanctimonious and hypocritical. Some of the accusations voiced have been hypocritical and demagogic, especially those made by governments that, before lecturing others, should put their own houses in order. Is it not hypocritical to state that it is cultivating the solidarity of young people when the imperialist policy of neo-colonialist wars sends hundreds of thousands of young people to death, hunger and poverty? They should not be duplicitous and hypocritical. To go back on that, and to try to put a rose-coloured glass around it as if the Atlantic accord was being respected, is hypocritical in the utmost. If there is nothing worse than a family where relationships are hypocritical, political and self-centered, in God's family, it is all the opposite! As long as we fail to act decisively where decisive action is required, it is hypocritical to say to nations clashing on the ground that they are responsible for the tragedies which befall them. Show More Sentences On the Charter, he implied it would be hypocritical not to act, whilst at the same sending EU High Representative Javier Solana ³cout to all corners of the world, reading the rule book to all and sundry³d. The Green Paper on the modernisation of labour law has just one merit: it can easily be torn to shreds as an unbelievable concoction of half-truths and hypocritical observations. The sanctions were widely perceived as a failure – and hypocritical to start with: how could a country like France, which has its own National Front, lecture other countries on stamping out xenophobia? It's hypocritical to stop selling GTAV while still selling NERF guns, unless video games are more likely to result in real-world behavioural changes than real-world games. The United States Government had once again imposed a verdict that was in keeping with its hypocritical and cynical version of respect for human rights and action to combat terrorism. It would help cement the city's image as a genuine, rather than a hypocritical advocate for local tokers. There is something stinkingly hypocritical and patronising in such manifestations of wealth and plenty in a land that is stricken by poverty. Was the federal government being underhanded and hypocritical in officially praising the merits of federalism, but in missing no opportunity to promote Canadian nationalism? A host of other interests, in part very worldly, attached themselves to the conflict and were concealed in it, so that it assumes the aspect of a merely hypocritical pretext. The hypocritical smugness of the English makes my blood boil. There is no reason to think that the enlivening possible blemish was his hypocritical show of repentance, since there are so many other candidate blemishes to choose among. She came to execrate the hypocritical values of her upper-class upbringing. The hypocritical Miller, makes demands on poor Hans but refuses to aid him in his distress, arguing that it is better to leave people in trouble alone. Crooked law enforcement, corrupt lawmakers, dirty-handed and hypocritical adjudicators and other miscellaneous murky state and Federal government officials. Examples from Classical Literature There is no reason to suspect him of hypocritical compliances or tergiversation. She shall not come between me and happiness with her soft and hypocritical ways! The little girls actually point to me with furtive, vinegary glances, for they are more ingenuously hypocritical than women. He grew cunning and hypocritical, and could do nothing that was not false in reality or appearance. He wanted quiet and was ever ill at ease among the superficialities of a hypocritical civilisation. Sympathy in him there was none, and he could not make a hypocritical show of any. But Charles, in spite of his hypocritical character, was a well-meaning boy. In his opinion, it was a very carnal institution conducted by very hypocritical men and women. On one was a satire on the hypocritical rapacity of perfidious Albion. Was it her fault if she did not possess those sycophantic arts which her hypocritical nephew, Pitt Crawley, practised? I find it hypocritical to make an exception for free votes when we are voting on English legislation the rest of the time. You can let him think, if you will, that she is tarred with the same brush as those infamous and hypocritical relatives of hers who sent her father out to die. Find more words! 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