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1. hypocritical
adjective. ['ˌhɪpəˈkrɪtɪkəl'] professing feelings or virtues one does not have.
Antonyms
Rhymes with Hypocritical
- nonpolitical
- hypercritical
- geopolitical
- uncritical
- apolitical
- analytical
- political
Sentences with hypocritical
1. Adjective
Colleagues are smart enough to sense hypocritical behavior and don't take to it very kindly.
Quotes about hypocritical
1. Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
2. I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas.
- Johnny Cash
3. There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old "accountable"for her performance on a high-stakes standardized exam but does not hold the high officials of our government accountable for robbing her of what they gave their own kids six or seven years before.
- Jonathan Kozol, The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America