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hypocrisy

2 definitions • 2 examples
1
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:

Examples:

There's one rule for her and another rule for everyone else and it's sheer hypocrisy.
2
pretending to be what you are not, or pretending to believe something that you do not:

Examples:

Critics are accusing him of hypocrisy and deceit.

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