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Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.
Larry Flynt

Meaning of "hypocrisy" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HYPOCRISY

hypocrisy  [hɪˈpɒkrəsɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HYPOCRISY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hypocrisy is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HYPOCRISY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Hypocrisy

Hypocrisy is the claim or pretense of holding beliefs, feelings, standards, qualities, opinions, behaviors, virtues, motivations, or other characteristics that one does not in actual fact hold. It is the practice of engaging in the same behavior or activity for which one criticizes another. In Moral psychology, it is the failure to follow one’s own expressed moral rules and principles. Recent studies in Psychology have identified the evolutionary bases and the mental mechanisms of hypocrisy, tracing its roots to adaptations that serve contradictory functions in the human brain, and to cognitive biases and distortions that predispose humans to readily perceive and condemn faults in others, while failing to perceive and condemn faults of their own.

Definition of hypocrisy in the English dictionary

The definition of hypocrisy in the dictionary is the practice of professing standards, beliefs, etc, contrary to one's real character or actual behaviour, esp the pretence of virtue and piety. Other definition of hypocrisy is an act or instance of this.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HYPOCRISY


adhocracy
ædˈhɒkrəsɪ
aristocracy
ˌærɪˈstɒkrəsɪ
autocracy
ɔːˈtɒkrəsɪ
bureaucracy
bjʊəˈrɒkrəsɪ
chrysocracy
krɪˈsɒkrəsɪ
cottonocracy
ˌkɒtəˈnɒkrəsɪ
democracy
dɪˈmɒkrəsɪ
demonocracy
ˌdiːmɒnˈɒkrəsɪ
dulocracy
duːˈlɒkrəsɪ
gerontocracy
ˌdʒɛrɒnˈtɒkrəsɪ
kakistocracy
ˌkækɪˈstɒkrəsɪ
kleptocracy
ˌklɛpˈtɒkrəsɪ
mediocracy
ˌmiːdɪˈɒkrəsɪ
meritocracy
ˌmɛrɪˈtɒkrəsɪ
mobocracy
mɒˈbɒkrəsɪ
pedantocracy
ˌpedənˈtɒkrəsɪ
plutocracy
pluːˈtɒkrəsɪ
slavocracy
sleɪˈvɒkrəsɪ
technocracy
tɛkˈnɒkrəsɪ
theocracy
θɪˈɒkrəsɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HYPOCRISY

hypochondriasis
hypochondriasm
hypochondriast
hypochondrium
hypocist
hypocorism
hypocorisma
hypocoristic
hypocoristical
hypocoristically
hypocotyl
hypocotylous
hypocrisies
hypocrite
hypocritic
hypocritical
hypocritically
hypocrystalline
hypocycloid
hypocycloidal

WORDS THAT END LIKE HYPOCRISY

Barberton daisy
bumpsadaisy
clerisy
cramoisy
daisy
Doisy
grisy
lackadaisy
Livingstone daisy
Michaelmas daisy
moon daisy
noisy
oxeye daisy
pleurisy
Shasta daisy
unnoisy
upsadaisy
upsy-daisy
whoops-a-daisy

Synonyms and antonyms of hypocrisy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «HYPOCRISY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «hypocrisy» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of hypocrisy

Translation of «hypocrisy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HYPOCRISY

Find out the translation of hypocrisy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hypocrisy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hypocrisy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

虚伪
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

hipocresía
570 millions of speakers

English

hypocrisy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पाखंड
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

النفاق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

лицемерие
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

hipocrisia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভণ্ডামি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

hypocrisie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kemunafikan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Heuchelei
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

みせかけ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

위선
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kemunafikan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

gỉa nhân nghia
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

போலித்தனம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ढोंगीपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

iki yüzlülük
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ipocrisia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

hipokryzja
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

лицемірство
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ipocrizie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υποκρισία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

skynheiligheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hyckleri
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hykleri
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hypocrisy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HYPOCRISY»

The term «hypocrisy» is quite widely used and occupies the 28.533 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HYPOCRISY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «hypocrisy» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «hypocrisy» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hypocrisy

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10 QUOTES WITH «HYPOCRISY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word hypocrisy.
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Michael Arrington
Just pick a political story at random and read the comments. There is no logic or reason on either side - only hypocrisy and hate.
2
Ambrose Bierce
Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
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Gro Harlem Brundtland
Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children.
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Graydon Carter
Issues such as transparency often boil down to which side of - pick a number - 40 you're on. Under 40, and transparency is generally considered a good thing for society. Over 40, and one generally chooses privacy over transparency. On every side of this issue, hypocrisy abounds.
5
Fidel Castro
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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Eleanor Clift
If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.
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Cindy Crawford
I get the hypocrisy thing, but any human being is allowed to have a public and private face, and celebrities should have the same rights as regular people to decide what cards they lay down and what cards they hide.
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Alan Dershowitz
Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.
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Oriana Fallaci
We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.
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Larry Flynt
Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HYPOCRISY»

Discover the use of hypocrisy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hypocrisy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Hypocrisy: Ethical Investigations
What is a hypocrite? What role does hypocrisy play in our lives? Why is it thought to be such an ugly vice? Is it ever acceptable? What do we lose in our indifference to it?
Béla Szabados, Eldon Soifer, 2004
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Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals ...
This book explores what happens when controversial arguments in favour of hypocrisy enter the mainstream, making it increasingly hard to tell the difference between hypocrisy and more obviously attractive qualities like modesty, self ...
Jenny Davidson, 2004
3
Hypocrisy: moral fraud and other vices
In Hypocrisy, James Spiegel draws insights from ethics, theology, psychology, apologetics, and spiritual formation to guide you through this complex subject. Book jacket.
James S. Spiegel, 2000
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Hypocrisy Trap: The World Bank and the Poverty of Reform
"--Peter J. Katzenstein, Cornell University "An excellent book: theoretically sophisticated, empirically rich, and refreshingly accessible. This is the best book I have seen about the World Bank in a long time.
Catherine Weaver, 2008
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Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy
Organized hypocrisy--the presence of longstanding norms that are frequently violated--has been an enduring attribute of international relations Political leaders have usually but not always honored international legal sovereignty, the ...
Stephen D. Krasner, 1999
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American Hypocrisy: American Diplomacy, American Tragedy
In this book Dr. Grand, s treatise addresses also to consequences of our hypocrisy towards religious prejudices, hypocrisy in criminal justice and as well as in sex education.
Stephen Grand, 2007
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Hypocrisy and Integrity: Machiavelli, Rousseau, and the ...
Hypocrisy and Integrity offers a new conceptual framework that clarifies the differences between idealism and fanaticism while it uncovers the moral limits of compromise. "Exciting and provocative. . .
Ruth W. Grant, 2008
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A Heritage of Hypocrisy
The facts, as this book demonstrates, are incontrovertible: Our history is an unbroken progression of atrocities, betrayals of trust, and abuses of the rule of law, both to our global neighbors as well as our own citizens.
Holliston Perni, 2005
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Hypocrisy Unmasked: Dissociation, Shame, and the Ethics of ...
Hypocrisy Unmasked explores the motives, meanings, and mechanisms of hypocrisy, challenging two principal psychoanalytic assumptions: First, that hypocrisy expresses deviant, uncontrollable impulses or follows exclusively from superego ...
Ronald C. Naso, 2010
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Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power, from Hobbes to ...
Anyone discussing political hypocrisy in the future will have to deal with this book.
David Runciman, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HYPOCRISY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hypocrisy is used in the context of the following news items.
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Elite's Hypocrisy: Demonizing Southern Heritage, Protecting Radical …
If Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez's alleged July 16 attack on the Chattanooga Navy Reserve Center brought anything to light, it is the elite's ... «Breitbart News, Jul 15»
2
Tour de France 2015: Lance Armstrong criticises hypocrisy of cycling
The irony of Lance Armstrong beginning his Tour de France charity ride from a Leader Price budget supermarket in a small French village was ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
3
Lindemann Feat. Rammstein Singer, Pain/Hypocrisy Mainman …
RAMMSTEIN Singer, PAIN/HYPOCRISY Mainman: Making-Of Footage From 'Praise Abort' Video Shoot. July 16, 2015 0 Comments. Share0 Tweet0 Share0 ... «BLABBERMOUTH.NET, Jul 15»
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The U.S. Trade Hypocrisy in Vietnam - WSJ
The U.S. Trade Hypocrisy in Vietnam. America's insistence on an agricultural trade barrier will hobble plans for a pivot to Asia. GO FISH ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
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How a group of nuns inadvertently revealed conservative hypocrisy
Do you feel overly burdened by your government? Unless you're a libertarian who's particularly sensitive to that sort of thing, the answer may ... «The Week Magazine, Jul 15»
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WATCH Gowdy Just Roasted Top Obama Official For This Hypocrisy
“You are not willing to mandate federal detainers, but you are willing to mandate that state and local law enforcement cannot assist you in ... «Western Journalism, Jul 15»
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Tillis skips ISIS hearing, prompting charge of hypocrisy - Greensboro …
CHARLOTTE — In the final weeks of his U.S. Senate race last fall, Republican Thom Tillis blasted Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan for missing a ... «Greensboro News & Record, Jul 15»
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Plaxico Burress blasts Nick Saban for hypocrisy - FanSided
Plaxico Burress blasts Nick Saban for hypocrisy. Jan 1, 2015; New Orleans, LA, USA; Alabama Crimson Tide head coach Nick Saban against ... «FanSided, Jul 15»
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Plaxico Burress blasts Nick Saban for hypocrisy
In 1999, Plaxico Burress was a star receiver with the Michigan State Spartans. His coach at the time, Nick Saban, was about to become one of ... «FanSided, Jul 15»
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Hypocrisy abounds in debate over Confederate symbols
Hypocrisy abounds in debate over Confederate symbols. During World War II, my father served in New Guinea. I spent two decades in the Air ... «Montgomery Advertiser, Jul 15»

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