Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a hypocritical manner; with hypocrisy; without sincerity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb in a
hypocritical manner
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a hypocritical manner
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word hypocritically.
Examples
-
You watch too much fox news (the lapdog of the ultra right conservatives, who interestingly and hypocritically is on the same network that show some of the worst of the worst television has to offer.) @Mike – patriot act, was the 2002 GOP-led congress.
-
This evasion does no credit to John Williams (the composer of the original music to Jaws), and implies that even the producers of the advert have no compunction in hypocritically avoiding paying the royalties they’d presumably otherwise argue he’s due.
-
The AP spends a lot of time in its complaint attacking Fairey for making artwork in the past that supposedly violated other people's copyrights, and for "hypocritically" suing people he claimed violated his copyright, but these assertions are as legally irrelevant as the AP's statement that "more than 30 AP journalists have lost their lives in the line of duty."
Jonathan Melber: Hypocrisy And Bad Faith In The AP's Countersuit Against Shepard Fairey 2009
-
He argues their wealth was the result of neo-liberal policies of the former Howard Government, which Mr Rudd had since "hypocritically" slammed.
-
In her strongest comments on the subject to date, Clinton is accusing Iran of hypocritically trying to align itself with popular uprisings in some North African and Middle Eastern states, while trying to thwart democracy movements at home and in its key ally Syria.
-
These so-called "conservatives" hypocritically point to others 'mistakes and do the same thing themselves – Republican double standard.
-
The media as usual tried to hypocritically ignore the story, but is being entirely bypassed, thanks to the internet (and then trying to cover themselves in retrospect).
-
Coburn, Ensign and Wamp should all resign as they have hypocritically attacked others for sexual improprities.
-
In her strongest comments on the subject to date, Clinton is accusing Iran of hypocritically trying to align itself with popular uprisings in some North African and Middle Eastern states, while trying to thwart democracy movements at home and in its key ally Syria.
-
In her strongest comments on the subject to date, Clinton is accusing Iran of hypocritically trying to align itself with popular uprisings in some North African and Middle Eastern states, while trying to thwart democracy movements at home and in its key ally Syria.
sionnach commented on the word hypocritically
"That hippopotamus is very fat", said Tom hypocritically.
March 20, 2007
uselessness commented on the word hypocritically
*smirk*
March 20, 2007