0 a situation in which someone pretends to believe something that they do not really believe, or that is the opposite of what they do or say at another time: --
1 pretending to be what you are not, or pretending to believe something that you do not: --
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'.
