Definition of "hypocrisy" []

• The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness. (noun)
• An act or instance of such falseness. (noun)

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• "I knew not, nor cared, in my joy at having escaped from such an abode of hypocrisy as my parents 'house -- for of all the vices which can disgrace humanity, I regard _hypocrisy_ as the most detestable."
• "But watching them writhe in hypocrisy is usually entertaining."
• "The only good thing from this exercise in hypocrisy is the fact that they have now confirmed the report on CIA foreign prisons."