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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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Thank you Ayaq – I like when such hypocrisies are pointed out.
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