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- noun
religious hypocrisy
Etymologies
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Examples
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If, for example, you are a politician who preaches "traditional values" and you get caught in a hotel with a woman who is not your wife, the press is going to have a field day with your tartuffery.
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In a text book designed for the edification of research workers -- a specimen of peculiarly disagreeable tartuffery -- the histologist, Ramón y
Youth and Egolatry P��o Baroja 1914
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If, for example, you are a politician who preaches "traditional values" and you get caught in a hotel with a woman who is not your wife, the press is going to have a field day with your tartuffery.
Illinois Review 2009
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Secondly, about the monumental tartuffery revealed by the whole sequence of events, when we really think about it: because, ultimately, the scandal was announced; it had been made public on every French website under the sky several days in advance.
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Secondly, about the monumental tartuffery revealed by the whole sequence of events, when we really think about it: because, ultimately, the scandal was announced; it had been made public on every French website under the sky several days in advance.
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Secondly, about the monumental tartuffery revealed by the whole sequence of events, when we really think about it: because, ultimately, the scandal was announced; it had been made public on every French website under the sky several days in advance.
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