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- noun Plural form of
hypocrisy .
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Examples
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With five Mr Chows now spread across Britain and the United States - one each in London, Beverly Hills and Miami and two in New York - Chow feels unconstrained by what he calls the "hypocrisies" of more diplomatic restaurateurs.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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With five Mr Chows now spread across Britain and the United States - one each in London, Beverly Hills and Miami and two in New York - Chow feels unconstrained by what he calls the "hypocrisies" of more diplomatic restaurateurs.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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I think teenagers are particularly adept at focusing in on life's hypocrisies, which is why Monroe is frequently so hung up on the Church's contradictions.
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I suppose we do this kind of thing for every film we admire those little "hypocrisies" I've mentioned before, but I guess I'm just not willing to compartmentalize in this case, when so much of what's onscreen offends my sensibilities, whether formal, aesthetic, dramatic, moral or otherwise.
On Violence and Restraint in The Dark Knight Ed Howard 2008
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Asked about those "hypocrisies," McElehenney explains that he thinks "there are hypocrisies in the arguments on both sides.
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In the current repugniscum party, however, the contradictions are a startling 180 degrees, occur from day to day, if not hour to hour, and I would be far more critical of those hypocrisies — McCain is not the only one guilty.
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The more I read what Republicans are saying, their lies, distortions, hypocrisies etc. the more I am convinced there is something wrong with them.
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And that's one of the first ironies -- or hypocrisies -- of the current national dialogue on education reform.
Sue Peters: The Doublespeak of Ed Reform Sue Peters 2010
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The inflection of torn emotions and the imaginative embrace of hypocrisies was in the air, from wall to wall, floor to ceiling.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » October : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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Thank you Ayaq – I like when such hypocrisies are pointed out.
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