hypocrisies in English

noun

1

the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense.

The way society views the whole drug scene is riddled with hypocrisy and double standards.

synonyms: dissimulation, false virtue, cant, posturing, affectation, speciousness, empty talk, insincerity, falseness, deceit, dishonesty, mendacity, pretense, duplicity, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, pietism, piousness, phoniness, fraud

noun

• dissimulation, false virtue, cant, posturing, affectation, speciousness, empty talk, insincerity, falseness, deceit, dishonesty, mendacity, pretense, duplicity, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, pietism, piousness, phoniness, fraud
• lip service

Use "hypocrisies" in a sentence

1. The intent is to make fun of all the classic tropes and hypocrisies and conceited self-Aggrandizements of the classic Epic Westerns

2. Every week political Cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events

3. They are upset by the endless chronicle of folly and evil which journalists deliver - "the usual depravities and Basenesses and hypocrisies and cruelties" which …

4. "My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, Arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies" Author: Twain Quotes Category: Arrogance Quotes "I like a good story well told

5. I do it every morning--knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities and Basenesses and hypocrisies and cruelties that make up civilization, and cause me to put in the rest of the day pleading for the damnation of the human race

6. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities and Basenesses and hypocrisies and cruelties that make up civilization, and cause me to put in the rest of the day pleading for the damnation of the human race

7. I do it every morning--knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities and Basenesses and hypocrisies and cruelties that make up civilization, and cause me to put in the rest of the day pleading for the damnation of the human race