HYPOCRITICAL in a Sentence
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27 example sentences for HYPOCRITICAL, such as:
1. It is more hypocritical than irreproachable.
2. Harsh judgments can make hypocrites of us all.
3. I place no confidence in their hypocritical faces.
4. Your tirade is juvenile, hypocritical, and dare I say, unprofessional.
5. When you're called a hypocrite is when you really live a double lifestyle.
2. Harsh judgments can make hypocrites of us all.
3. I place no confidence in their hypocritical faces.
4. Your tirade is juvenile, hypocritical, and dare I say, unprofessional.
5. When you're called a hypocrite is when you really live a double lifestyle.
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Meanings and Examples of HYPOCRITICAL
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hypocritical
a. pretending to be virtuous; deceiving
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1 With a hypocritical look of the deepest submission, the Preceptor of Templestowe bowed to the ground before his Superior, and resumed his seat.
2 Yet this demure affectation of extreme penitence was whimsically belied by a ludicrous meaning which lurked in his huge features, and seemed to pronounce his fear and repentance alike hypocritical.
3 It is more hypocritical than irreproachable.
4 I place no confidence in their hypocritical faces.
5 No, that I am sure I shall not; and I think it is very impertinent of him to write to you at all, and very hypocritical.
6 I am afraid it was hypocritical in me, but seeing that my aunt felt strongly on the subject, I tried to look as if I felt strongly too.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 14. MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 14. MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME
7 The widow-robbing deacon of fiction can't help being hypocritical.
8 To-day the two groups of Negroes, the one in the North, the other in the South, represent these divergent ethical tendencies, the first tending toward radicalism, the other toward hypocritical compromise.
9 It was very remarkable that a young gentleman who had been brought up under one continuous system of unnatural restraint, should be a hypocrite; but it was certainly the case with Tom.
10 She cried bitterly over this reflection when her uncle was gone; and her cousins, on seeing her with red eyes, set her down as a hypocrite.
11 It was bad enough that a Mrs Clay should be always before her; but that a deeper hypocrite should be added to their party, seemed the destruction of everything like peace and comfort.
12 That abject hypocrite, Pumblechook, nodded again, and said, with a patronizing laugh, "It's more than that, Mum."
13 He is such an incarnate hypocrite, that whatever object he pursues, he must pursue crookedly.
14 Madame," replied Villefort, "you know that I am no hypocrite, or, at least, that I never deceive without a reason.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 67. At the Office of the King's Attorney.
Context Highlight In Chapter 67. At the Office of the King's Attorney.
15 I always knew she hated me and she was too much of a hypocrite to admit it.
Example Sentence:
1 It was a protest against the hypocritical policies of the United States, which has supported Mubarak despite his autocratic rule.
2 The challenge for church people today is how to be pious in the best sense, that is, to be devout without becoming hypocritical.
3 Your tirade is juvenile, hypocritical, and dare I say, unprofessional.
4 Of course I was wrong; it would be hypocritical to pretend otherwise.
5 When you're called a hypocrite is when you really live a double lifestyle.
6 He's a hypocrite - he's always lecturing other people on the environment but he drives around in a huge great car.
7 Harsh judgments can make hypocrites of us all.