hypocrisy Definisjon på norsk

  • 0 behavior that contradicts what sb has said they believe -- hykleri [ neuter ]

    • the hypocrisy of politicians hykleriet fra politikere

  • 1 the act or state of pretending to be better than one is or to have feelings or beliefs which one does not actually have -- hykleri, skinnhellighet

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Examples of hypocrisy

  • She had many frustrations with the hypocrisy which she found in much religious life.

  • All parties appear to gain by denouncing the hypocrisy behind the subterfuge of denying that the con-ict had been a war.

  • Male hypocrisy, secret sins men committed, was to blame for the social disorder of the 1930s.

  • These daily experiences create an obvious temptation to 'hypocrisy' or shirking of the work of the movement.

  • Dickens himself was not unaware of his hypocrisy in the matter.

  • The blatant hypocrisy of designing a ready-to-live world must be eradicated.

  • Attention is drawn to the common hypocrisy whereby this kind of neogovernment undertaking is often protected in law.

  • Elster conjectures that strategic arguing illustrates the more general phenomenon of the 'civilizing effect of hypocrisy'.

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