Example sentences for: hypocritical

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

  • That would be hypocritical, since its most meaningful (and hilarious) connections happen over (and with a large assist from) booze and pot.

  • It is hypocritical of our leaders to issue blanket statements that this type of research should be banned due to some imagined threat to society in the future.

  • I called Toobin and asked him why this wasn't hypocritical, and he offered various semi-contradictory answers.

  • "Flawless is so awful it just might put an end to Hollywood's hypocritical infatuation with men in drag as symbols of its own supposedly liberated sexual attitudes" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ). Critics call it corny, predictable, and packed with gay stereotypes.

  • Others have charged that the president's contrition regarding the U.S. failure to prevent genocide in Rwanda in 1994 was cheap and hypocritical, since it was a considered decision, not (as he implied) some kind of oversight, and there is no reason to suppose the United States will decide differently if it happens again.


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