HYPOCRITICAL in a Sentence

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27 example sentences for HYPOCRITICAL, such as:

1. It is more hypocritical than irreproachable.
2. Harsh judgments can make hypocrites of us all.
3. I place no confidence in their hypocritical faces.
4. Your tirade is juvenile, hypocritical, and dare I say, unprofessional.
5. When you're called a hypocrite is when you really live a double lifestyle.

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 Meanings and Examples of HYPOCRITICAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
hypocritical
 a.  pretending to be virtuous; deceiving
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  With a hypocritical look of the deepest submission, the Preceptor of Templestowe bowed to the ground before his Superior, and resumed his seat.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
2  Yet this demure affectation of extreme penitence was whimsically belied by a ludicrous meaning which lurked in his huge features, and seemed to pronounce his fear and repentance alike hypocritical.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
3  It is more hypocritical than irreproachable.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V—PRESENT PROGRESS
4  I place no confidence in their hypocritical faces.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 6 HIS MAJESTY KING LOUIS XIII
5  No, that I am sure I shall not; and I think it is very impertinent of him to write to you at all, and very hypocritical.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
6  I am afraid it was hypocritical in me, but seeing that my aunt felt strongly on the subject, I tried to look as if I felt strongly too.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14. MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME
7  The widow-robbing deacon of fiction can't help being hypocritical.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
8  To-day the two groups of Negroes, the one in the North, the other in the South, represent these divergent ethical tendencies, the first tending toward radicalism, the other toward hypocritical compromise.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In X
9  It was very remarkable that a young gentleman who had been brought up under one continuous system of unnatural restraint, should be a hypocrite; but it was certainly the case with Tom.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
10  She cried bitterly over this reflection when her uncle was gone; and her cousins, on seeing her with red eyes, set her down as a hypocrite.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
11  It was bad enough that a Mrs Clay should be always before her; but that a deeper hypocrite should be added to their party, seemed the destruction of everything like peace and comfort.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
12  That abject hypocrite, Pumblechook, nodded again, and said, with a patronizing laugh, "It's more than that, Mum."
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIII
13  He is such an incarnate hypocrite, that whatever object he pursues, he must pursue crookedly.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. Mr. MICAWBER'S TRANSACTIONS
14  Madame," replied Villefort, "you know that I am no hypocrite, or, at least, that I never deceive without a reason.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 67. At the Office of the King's Attorney.
15  I always knew she hated me and she was too much of a hypocrite to admit it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
Example Sentence:
1  It was a protest against the hypocritical policies of the United States, which has supported Mubarak despite his autocratic rule.
2  The challenge for church people today is how to be pious in the best sense, that is, to be devout without becoming hypocritical.
3  Your tirade is juvenile, hypocritical, and dare I say, unprofessional.
4  Of course I was wrong; it would be hypocritical to pretend otherwise.
5  When you're called a hypocrite is when you really live a double lifestyle.
6  He's a hypocrite - he's always lecturing other people on the environment but he drives around in a huge great car.
7  Harsh judgments can make hypocrites of us all.