How to Use hypocritical in a Sentence

hypocritical

adjective
  • But the truth is, hypocritical is the least bad thing this is.
    — Author: Leonard Pitts, Alaska Dispatch News, 23 July 2017
  • From the get-go, one of their guiding lights seems to have led a hypocritical life.
    — Cherie Deville, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2023
  • To cat meat and then denounce the elk hunt was hypocritical, but there was no budging him.
    — Susan Casey, Field & Stream, 6 Dec. 2020
  • Pusha thinks that’s a bit hypocritical of Drake, for a few reasons.
    — Aja Romano, Vox, 31 May 2018
  • Yet to turn around and endorse or forgive the use of steroids at this point would be beyond hypocritical on my part.
    — Jeff Jacobs, courant.com, 16 Dec. 2017
  • Yet Bianco is nowhere near as hypocritical in his stance as Barnes.
    — Gustavo Arellano Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2020
  • Some believed that the outfit was a hypocritical dig on Kent's part.
    — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 16 July 2024
  • But support of the show based on that storyline alone is hypocritical.
    — Yolanda MacHado, Marie Claire, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Some Hearties found this to be hypocritical since Elizabeth won't do the same in her own life.
    — Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 8 Mar. 2021
  • And to sit up there, man, and to be just blatantly hypocritical is funny and sickening at the same time.
    — Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Trying to climb on any high horse would only be embarrassing at best, and at the very least hypocritical.
    — Danielle Campoamor, refinery29.com, 5 Jan. 2021
  • If that strikes you as a little suspicious, maybe even hypocritical, well, have both Bechdels got a book for you.
    — Sam Thielman, New York Times, 20 May 2025
  • Our leaders are hypocrites, and some of these church leaders in these megachurches seem hypocritical, too.
    — Emily Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 16 Aug. 2019
  • How hypocritical that of me, Amy, and Gretchen, the only one married is me.
    — David Sedaris, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Scoundrels may not be aspirational figures for most of us, but a good scoundrel, shameless and hypocritical, can be a lot of fun.
    — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2023
  • There are few things in this world more sanctimonious and hypocritical than left-wing sportswriters getting on their faux moral high horse.
    — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 June 2026
  • John McCain himself went out of his way to highlight why his choice was so sad, and so hypocritical.
    — James Fallows, The Atlantic, 26 July 2017
  • To chastise you for attending to his mistake and then act as though your laundry were now tainted is rude and hypocritical.
    — Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Advertisement Of course, there is such a thing as being too bad—and too hypocritical.
    — Shadi Hamid, Time, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Given the couple's climate change activism, many found the mode of transport to be hypocritical.
    — Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 24 July 2021
  • That’s not just awkward; that’s hypocritical.
    — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The thumb has been placed on the scales to promote the agenda of the person who owns this website under the intensely hypocritical guise of free speech.
    — Jason Parham, WIRED, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Is the Western world hypocritical by trying to eliminate the drug, while at the same time being one of its key markets?
    — Paul Sedan, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Jan. 2021
  • But in the past, the company has derided the complaints as hypocritical.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 3 May 2022
  • During his radio show, Stern explained why the events — and the reactions to them — were hypocritical.
    — Kelly Wynne, PEOPLE.com, 5 May 2022
  • But also—Brody was the star of a TV show about spoiled rich kids too, so wasn’t his assumption hypocritical?
    — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 5 Apr. 2021
  • This is the most hypocritical, clueless statement in her regrettable time in the WH.
    — Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2018
  • Democrats have decried that plan as hypocritical, pointing to what happened in the 2016 election year.
    — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2020
  • But another may be a sense that Western nations are being hypocritical.
    — Salil Tripathi, Time, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Yet, the sense of cognitive dissonance that pervades this space can feel blindingly hypocritical.
    — Megan Feringa, New York Times, 27 May 2026

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