710 examples of hypocrisy in sentences

The Presence of the King hinder'd my knowledge, Of what I willingly would learn from you; Come, ne'er deny a truth that plain appears; I see Hypocrisy through all your Tears.

The cunning hypocrisy spurred Donnegan.

The word carries a decided suggestion of hypocrisy.

It is useless to call this hypocrisy.

Each believes in its own good faith, and each accuses the other of hypocrisy.

It can so easily become a piece of cant or hypocrisy.

I hate hypocrisy, and if we're going to be friends let's be honest with one another from the start.

All this gave umbrage to Garibaldi, but no hypocrisy and much wisdom inspired these acts.

With equal hypocrisy Yussef humbly thanked him for his abdication; the sheiks and walis were summoned to witness the renewed declaration of the emir, after which the two princes separated.

From all blindness of heart; from pride, vainglory, and hypocrisy; from envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitableness: Good Lord, deliver us.

Yes; in the Son of David, as in David's self, there was, and is, and will be for ever and ever, no weak, and really cruel indulgence; but a burning fire of indignation against all hypocrisy, tyranny, lust, cruelty, and every other sin by which men oppress, torment, deceive, degrade their fellow-men; and still more, still more, remember that, all young men, their fellow-women.

He is under the restraint of a formal and didactive hypocrisy in company, as a clergyman is under a moral one.

After a devotional tone put on for a few seconds, how rapidly the speaker will fall into his common voice, helping himself or his neighbour, as if to get rid of some uneasy sensation of hypocrisy.

To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.

There is a middle state of mind between conviction and hypocrisy, of which many are conscious.

Such proofs of emotion in one like John Moseley gave her the satisfaction of knowing that if she had been deceived, it was by a concurrence of circumstances and a depth of hypocrisy almost exceeding belief: self-reproach added less than common, therefore, to the uneasiness of the moment.

"Few men can support such a veil of hypocrisy as that with which I sometimes think Denbigh must deceive even himself.

The mask that veils the hypocrisy is too thin to deceive anybody.

He knew that whining wouldn't avail him, or any puling hypocrisy.

The prophet's keen sense of right detected such an outrageous combination of hypocrisy, covetousness, fraud, usurpation, cruelty, robbery, and murder, that he once more heard the Divine voice which summoned him from his retirement and sent him to the court with an awful message.

All classes turned against him; the nobles were furious at his exposure of their license and robberies, the priests hated him for his denunciation of hypocrisy, and the people for his gloomy prophecies that the Temple should be destroyed, Jerusalem reduced to ashes, and they themselves led into captivity.

Yet vehement, or direct, or plain as were Jeremiah's denunciations to the idol-worshippers of Jerusalem in the seventh century before it was finally destroyed by Titus, he was no more severe than when Jesus denounced the hypocrisy of the Scribes and Pharisees, no more mournful than when he lamented over the approaching ruin of the Temple.

Lastly, his devotion is obstinacy; the only solace of his heart, contradiction; and his main end, hypocrisy.

That which is now happening you have desired, and you still desire it; you have profited by the provocations you have received to bring about the most frightful conflict which the history of unfortunate France records; and you will persevere, and in order to revive the fainting courage of those whom you have devoted to inevitable defeat and death, you bring into action all the hypocrisy with which you have charged your enemies!

But the case is very different with avarice, trifling vanity, hypocrisy, and other vices, considered as ridiculous.

710 examples of  hypocrisy  in sentences