Example sentences for: hypocritical

How can you use “hypocritical” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The international community is debating whether continued inaction would be: 1) prudent because it is important to maintain good relations with Indonesia; 2) foolish, since Indonesia's inability to maintain peace makes intervention inevitable; or 3) hypocritical in light of the United Nations' active role in Kosovo.

  • Was Charles Keating, as he passed out worthless bonds in exchange for thousands of citizens' retirement nest eggs, merely unctuously hypocritical, or was he corrupt behind a display of seeming benevolence?

  • The other main story was Thursday's attack on Prime Minister Tony Blair by Conservative opposition leader William Hague, who called Blair a liar, a fraud, and the chief architect of a systematically hypocritical and deceitful government.

  • This screed against TV journalism is dismissed as hackneyed, heavy-handed, and hypocritical.

  • Of all the obnoxious, hypocritical statements he collected, the worst was Sally Quinn on why people "who have attained a certain social or political position" feel dissed by Clinton.


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