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  • For the most part, he explained that he would be a hypocrite if he maintained his own small luxuries while advising others to prepare for harder times.†   (source)
  • Parzival: You're such a hypocrite!†   (source)
  • Situations like these, I realized, were what turned people into hypocrites.†   (source)
  • Whenever Walt McCandless, in his stern fashion, would dispense a fatherly admonishment to Chris, Carine, or their half siblings, Chris would fixate on his father's own less than sterling behavior many years earlier and silently denounce him as a sanctimonious hypocrite.†   (source)
  • Show the rest of us what hypocrites we were.†   (source)
  • I don't want anyone to think of me as the WBCC Hypocrite ... Well, I could go on a lot longer, but I have homework and other things to do.†   (source)
  • He was willing to risk seeming like a hypocrite.†   (source)
  • If Lilly were still speaking to me, I know she'd say men are such hypocrites.†   (source)
  • 'Then they're all hypocrites,' Peter said.†   (source)
  • He's over there, the filthy hypocrite.†   (source)
  • What a hypocrite he was—to agree with me that Mr. and Mrs. Meany were "monsters of superstition"!†   (source)
  • He went away, and I thought what a hypocrite he was, telling me that I had to play.†   (source)
  • He is a hypocrite and a whited sepulcher!†   (source)
  • He need not have been a partisan of any faction in the town, but there is evidence to suggest that he had a sharp and biting way with hypocrites.†   (source)
  • I can't be a hypocrite and pray with her when I don't feel like it.†   (source)
  • I know that makes me a bit of a hypocrite.†   (source)
  • I thought of the sleeping pills in my bag and wondered just how great a hypocrite I was.†   (source)
  • What a shameless hypocrite!†   (source)
  • I don't object though, and I feel like a hypocrite to the entire feminist movement.†   (source)
  • And now you know I'm a hypocrite?†   (source)
  • And of course Chris had hit her in just the right place, had hit her exactly where she was most vulnerable: She was being a hypocrite, there seemed no way to avoid that, and deeply, sheathed within her and hateful, was the knowledge that one of the reasons she had gone to Miss Desjardin's hour of calisthenics and sweating runs around the gym floor had nothing to do with nobility.†   (source)
  • It's true—I was always lecturing friends about staying safe, so I wondered if anyone would think I was a hypocrite or if they'd assume my birth control failed.†   (source)
  • "I'm an old hypocrite, too," he says, his eyes mischievous again.†   (source)
  • I play the hypocrite even with myself.†   (source)
  • It is hard to be a hypocrite.†   (source)
  • "Then you're a hypocrite," Lindsay says.†   (source)
  • He'd long ago concluded that most of them were hypocrites.†   (source)
  • Would God think I was a hypocrite, praying every time I was scared?†   (source)
  • Any thinking person is aware of this paradox; but in dealing with conventional people it is advantageous to treat them as though they were not hypocrites.†   (source)
  • Why, if this were true, what a hypocrite the girl was!†   (source)
  • You're such a hypocrite, Bella—there you sit, terrified of me!†   (source)
  • I thought I could make out the word hypocrite.†   (source)
  • And you don't like bigots, bullies, snobs or hypocrites.†   (source)
  • I felt like the lowest form of hypocrite.†   (source)
  • Give me my rations, you ol' hypocrite!†   (source)
  • Oh, they're all such hypocrites.†   (source)
  • The old hypocrite,' she kept saying.†   (source)
  • But a bigger hypocrite never lived.†   (source)
  • "They met, they talked, they parted," wrote one of Howe's staff, "and now nothing remains but to fight it out against a set of the most determined hypocrites and demagogues, compiled of the refuse of the colonies, that ever were permitted by Providence to be the scourge of a country."†   (source)
  • So you're a hypocrite.†   (source)
  • What a total hypocrite!†   (source)
  • Seven save us all, what hypocrites they are.†   (source)
  • We are a nation of hypocrites.†   (source)
  • I am a hypocrite, of course, for I am no stranger to killing, so I shall only say that this kind of killing must stop.†   (source)
  • Has it taken you all these years to decide that I am a hypocrite?†   (source)
  • Even Pilar couldn't denounce her for being a hypocrite.†   (source)
  • I wonder if there's really a place in heaven for hypocrites who preach love, all the while kicking the downtrodden.†   (source)
  • So, standing by the door with Patsy's face turning red, I knew if there was a hypocrite in the house it was me.†   (source)
  • They're a stinking bunch of hypocrites.†   (source)
  • My world wasn't about condescending teachers and hypocrite parents and "Why don't you take out the trash?" and "Where's that two-thousand-word paper, Mr. Levin?"†   (source)
  • I'm not enough of a hypocrite to argue.†   (source)
  • Bunch of danged hypocrites was all they were.†   (source)
  • I remember when I realized my parents were hypocrites like everyone else.†   (source)
  • Don't get high and mighty with me, you hypocrite!†   (source)
  • He was a liar and a hypocrite too.†   (source)
  • HORNBECK You hypocrite!†   (source)
  • I saw on TV where one of those rioters from Berkeley stood up in front of the camera and told how her parents were hypocrites and liars and how she was better, shacking up with some long-haired dope addick or whatever, and I thought, Now there's a lunatic if I ever see one, but then I read about how all these professors are right there behind her, saying all how a university is the experiment grounds for the future and how it's not enough to theorize about how society ought to be fixed, you have to act, even if some of the actions don't turn out.†   (source)
  • They're all hypocrites!†   (source)
  • I must honestly admit that she is a good person, but I don't want to be a hypocrite-she is my exact opposite.†   (source)
  • Only hypocrites pretend not to understand.†   (source)
  • Tom Paine told the President that he was "treacherous in private friendship and a hypocrite in public...The world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or imposter; whether you have abandoned good principles, or whether you ever had any."†   (source)
  • You hypocrite.†   (source)
  • Hypocrites have just as much right to live in this world as anybody.†   (source)
  • They ain't no hypocrites at a youngun's funeral.†   (source)
  • I can forgive a fool, but I ain't inner-rested in coddlin' hypocrites.†   (source)
  • We once talked about where Jesus speaks to these hypocrites, telling them that even though they look clean on the outside, it's just whitewash—they're just bones and stuff on the inside.†   (source)
  • They are hypocrites, they think the church is a cage to keep God in, so he will stay locked up there and not go wandering about the earth during the week, poking his nose into their business, and looking into the depths and darkness and doubleness of their hearts, and their lack of true charity; and they believe they need only be bothered about him on Sundays when they have their best clothes on and their faces straight, and their hands washed and their gloves on, and their stories all prepared.†   (source)
  • You hypocrites!†   (source)
  • But, as in most professions, he supposed, hypocrites tended to be both passionate and politically savvy—in other words, corporate survivors—which meant they were the ones who not only doled out assignments but ended up paying the expenses.†   (source)
  • Last year when El Líder jailed a famous Cuban poet, she sneered at "those leftist intellectual hypocrites" for trying to free him.†   (source)
  • But I don't like hypocrites, neither.†   (source)
  • They's jest a long hot time full a-hypocrites and kinfolks — grievin' some maybe, but mostly bein' glad to be alive theirselves and tryin' to pretend they ain't havin' a good time seem' one another.†   (source)
  • Hypocrites!†   (source)
  • 'And just as long as you don't start snogging each other in public —' 'You filthy hypocrite!†   (source)
  • I knew she was stupid, but I never knew she was a hypocrite.†   (source)
  • That lousy hypocrite wants to be friends with me now that I'm a princess.†   (source)
  • Of course, I didn't know he was a hypocrite at first.†   (source)
  • Really, Doctor, you are such a hypocrite!†   (source)
  • At the time, I felt strongly that marrying in the church would make me a hypocrite.†   (source)
  • As far as I was concerned, the hypocrite got what he deserved.†   (source)
  • Is that all the love you felt for me, you sneaky little hypocrite?†   (source)
  • I didn't like to think that I was a hypocrite, only what was the point of lying to myself?†   (source)
  • Hell, Don, don't make me act the hypocrite with you.†   (source)
  • John called him "as great a hypocrite as any in the U.S. His intrigues in the election I despise."†   (source)
  • Everyone knew this about me ...but nobody knew that I was almost a hypocrite.†   (source)
  • How does being afraid of a monster make me a hypocrite?†   (source)
  • "Sorry I called you a hypocrite," he apologized.†   (source)
  • When the first innocence goes, you can't stop—unless you're a hypocrite or a fool.†   (source)
  • He'd said that it seemed to him a dubious piece of reasoning; which got him the reputation either of a cynic or of a puritanical hypocrite, depending on his audience.†   (source)
  • The hypocrite.†   (source)
  • "Well, I agree with Ron," said Hermione, "Awful old hypocrite, telling everyone else to help you and trying to worm our of it himself.†   (source)
  • Did that make her a hypocrite?†   (source)
  • Wes didn't think Tony was a hypocrite exactly—he knew why his brother felt obliged to warn him off.†   (source)
  • Buddy Willard was a hypocrite.†   (source)
  • Buddy kissed me again in front of the house steps, and the next fall, when his scholarship to medical school came through, I went there to see him instead of to Yale and it was there I found out how he had fooled me all those years and what a hypocrite he was.†   (source)
  • Then I turned the letter paper over and on the opposite side wrote that I was engaged to a simultaneous interpreter and never wanted to see Buddy again as I did not want to give my children a hypocrite for a father.†   (source)
  • Just shows you what a hypocrite he is.†   (source)
  • '...this diseased, ungrateful hypocrite, this teacher of the young who was welcomed like a brother into our dedicated ranks because we believed the words he spoke — so courageously, we thought — in opposition to our motherland's tormentors, is no more than a traitor.†   (source)
  • I'm so tired of feeling bad for making her live and feeling angry at her for living without me and feeling like a hypocrite for the whole mess.†   (source)
  • I'm the biggest hypocrite in the world.†   (source)
  • Yeah sure, I thought, you just need some time and space to be with your beloved Belinda, you big, old hypocrite†   (source)
  • I cannot live with a hypocrite.†   (source)
  • Since my separation, whenever I spoke at a program and gave suggestions about facing issues and overcoming adversity, I felt like a hypocrite.†   (source)
  • Her voice broke, but still she screamed, 'You would not listen, you sneered at me, you grinning hypocrite, you ought not to live either, you know so much, don't you?†   (source)
  • Yer lying ol' hypocrite!†   (source)
  • But I am not a hypocrite to myself because I was aware the day we declared the Revolution that we would need much money and would have to steal it.†   (source)
  • And furthermore, I told him that I thought he was a liar and a hypocrite and that I no longer respected anything he had to say about church or Christianity or anything for that matter.†   (source)
  • I'd portrayed his dead father as a drunken hypocrite who might have been killed by anyone, and the jury's verdict had given the portrayal at least some validation.†   (source)
  • You have always proclaimed such an exaggerated devotion to honesty-now let me see you be condemned to the life of the hypocrite that you really are.†   (source)
  • Hypocrite.†   (source)
  • Writing from Paris, Paine called Washington a creature of "grossest adulation," a man incapable of friendship, "a hypocrite in public life," apostate and impostor.†   (source)
  • Now he was hit by the chill realization that, in fact, he had never been a hypocrite: in full truth, he had never cared for money.†   (source)
  • Not satisfied that the old charges of monarchist and warmonger were sufficient, Callender called Adams a "repulsive pedant," a "gross hypocrite," and "in his private life, one of the most egregious fools upon the continent."†   (source)
  • Hypocrite?†   (source)
  • I'm a rotten hypocrite.†   (source)
  • In almost daily attacks in the Aurora, Adams was belittled as "The President by Three Votes," mocked again as "His Rotundity," excoriated as a base hypocrite, a tool of the British, "a man divested of his senses."†   (source)
  • He had experienced that "joy," and for him to deny it or try to conceal it would be rank hypocrisy: If at times I have betrayed in word or writing such a sentiment, I have only to say in excuse for it that I am not a hypocrite, nor a cunning man, nor at all times wise, and that although I may be more cautious for the future, I will never be so merely to obtain the reputation of a cunning politician, a character I neither admire nor esteem.†   (source)
  • A few hypocrites devised such evasive games as "playing house" or "doctor.†   (source)
  • But of course you can never tell; people are such hypocrites.†   (source)
  • All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were— cowards and hypocrites.†   (source)
  • It's only hypocrites like you, my dear lady, just as black at heart but trying to hide it, who become enraged when called by their right names.†   (source)
  • O, Erin, mourn with grief and woe For he lies dead whom the fell gang Of modern hypocrites laid low.†   (source)
  • The best of women (I have heard my grandmother say) are hypocrites.†   (source)
  • Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!†   (source)
  • Are doctors of divinity blind, or are they hypocrites?†   (source)
  • —Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!†   (source)
  • Tender slaves that they are, they must needs be hypocrites and weak.†   (source)
  • —But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!†   (source)
  • —Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!†   (source)
  • They had not the look of hypocrites.†   (source)
  • If they were hypocrites they did not know it, and their hypocrisy had every chance of setting and of becoming true.†   (source)
  • O you hypocrites, O, you whited sepulchres, O you who present a smooth smiling face to the world while your soul within is a foul swamp of sin, how will it fare with you in that terrible day?†   (source)
  • Who denounced in unmeasured terms the exploiters of his own time: 'Woe unto you, scribes and pharisees, hypocrites!'†   (source)
  • Is it not the tendency, born of Reconstruction and Reaction, to found a society on lawlessness and deception, to tamper with the moral fibre of a naturally honest and straightforward people until the whites threaten to become ungovernable tyrants and the blacks criminals and hypocrites?†   (source)
  • They are hypocrites or fools.†   (source)
  • Women who are not hypocrites go about in rational dress and are insulted and get into all sorts of hot water.†   (source)
  • "See, and judge with your own eyes," said the scout, advancing toward the eastern brow of the mountain, whither he beckoned for the whole party to follow; "if it was as easy to look into the heart of man as it is to spy out the nakedness of Montcalm's camp from this spot, hypocrites would grow scarce, and the cunning of a Mingo might prove a losing game, compared to the honesty of a Delaware."†   (source)
  • "It is interesting to know that you accuse your only daughter of being the vilest of hypocrites," said Mrs. Almond.†   (source)
  • After all, the Mediaeval folk acted after their conscience, as your remark about their God (which is true) shows, and they were ready to bear what they inflicted on others; whereas the nineteenth century ones were hypocrites, and pretended to be humane, and yet went on tormenting those whom they dared to treat so by shutting them up in prison, for no reason at all, except that they were what they themselves, the prison-masters, had forced them to be.†   (source)
  • Mr. Jacobs himself, familiarly known as Old Goggles, from his habit of wearing spectacles, imposed no painful awe; and if it was the property of snuffy old hypocrites like him to write like copperplate and surround their signatures with arabesques, to spell without forethought, and to spout "my name is Norval" without bungling, Tom, for his part, was glad he was not in danger of those mean accomplishments.†   (source)
  • The not being troubled with earnestness was a grand point in his favour, enabling him to take to the hard Fact fellows with as good a grace as if he had been born one of the tribe, and to throw all other tribes overboard, as conscious hypocrites.†   (source)
  • There may be coarse hypocrites, who consciously affect beliefs and emotions for the sake of gulling the world, but Bulstrode was not one of them.†   (source)
  • Hence Mr. Gambit could go away from the chief grocer's without fear of rivalry, but not without a sense that Lydgate was one of those hypocrites who try to discredit others by advertising their own honesty, and that it might be worth some people's while to show him up.†   (source)
  • Do you think you can fool me with such hypocrite's cant!†   (source)
  • I always knew she hated me and she was too much of a hypocrite to admit it.†   (source)
  • He is not pretending, thought Winston, he is not a hypocrite, he believes every word he says.†   (source)
  • That's your system, isn't it, my green-eyed hypocrite?†   (source)
  • Liar and hypocrite!†   (source)
  • Of course, he had his work...All the same, he rather wished Lily to agree that Ramsay was, as he said, "a bit of a hypocrite."†   (source)
  • Well, she's no hypocrite.†   (source)
  • You ain't nothing but a hypocrite.†   (source)
  • I got through examination by Lucy's set, not hearing what I didn't want to hear, or forcing others to give ground, and even if it did strengthen the hypocrite's muscle in my face and harden my stomach I thought it did me credit to bluff it through.†   (source)
  • He was not a vulgar hypocrite, as some people declared him to be, and he would probably have imposed even greater sacrifices on himself than he did, if he had not been interfered with at every step by the people surrounding him, especially his wife.†   (source)
  • It's...becoming a hypocrite.†   (source)
  • I am not a hypocrite.†   (source)
  • A bit of a hypocrite?†   (source)
  • Of course I wasn't going to be such a hypocrite as to argue with her and put on a face, as though I had never in all the world given a momentary thought, not even a one, to the matter of money.†   (source)
  • Self-righteous smug old hypocrite.†   (source)
  • A bit of a hypocrite?†   (source)
  • My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.†   (source)
  • I was a hypocrite; and it served me right to be sent to heaven.†   (source)
  • I won't be a creeping hypocrite any longer—so there!†   (source)
  • —You're a hypocrite, O'Keeffe, he said.†   (source)
  • You had better marry what you call a hypocrite, Jack.†   (source)
  • 'You scandalous old hypocrite!' she replied.†   (source)
  • "Shameless hypocrite!" exclaimed Dmitri furiously.†   (source)
  • Ah, Monsieur Hypocrite, I understand how you study theology.†   (source)
  • The minister well knew—subtle, but remorseful hypocrite that he was!†   (source)
  • He is such an incarnate hypocrite, that whatever object he pursues, he must pursue crookedly.†   (source)
  • "What a hypocrite you are!" said Philip, flushing angrily.†   (source)
  • He is a barbarian and a hypocrite, Mr Nickleby.†   (source)
  • Yes, he would be a great hypocrite; and he is not that yet.†   (source)
  • He is a hypocrite, a rascal who has himself roused the people to riot.†   (source)
  • Is he turning out a bit of a hypocrite, and coming into the country to work mischief under a cloak?†   (source)
  • "It is very much as I expected it would be," said the old hypocrite, rising to go.†   (source)
  • "Hold your tongue, hypocrite," said Andrea; "you love me!"†   (source)
  • As saint or knave, pilgrim or hypocrite?†   (source)
  • Well, he always was a fine hypocrite, was my brother Peter.†   (source)
  • And Johnson said, 'You may judge what a hypocrite he is.'†   (source)
  • Though so profound a double-dealer, I was in no sense a hypocrite; both sides of me were in dead earnest; I was no more myself when I laid aside restraint and plunged in shame, than when I laboured, in the eye of day, at the furtherance of knowledge or the relief of sorrow and suffering.†   (source)
  • I should seem so—such a hypocrite.†   (source)
  • Oh, you're just an old hypocrite, too.†   (source)
  • Though I do agree that aside from being a dirty, lying, social-climbing, sneaking, power-grabbing hypocrite, he's all right.†   (source)
  • And will you believe it, Lieutenant, the Red Whiskers now really loves Billy—loves him, or is the biggest hypocrite that ever I heard of.†   (source)
  • Hypocrite lecteur!†   (source)
  • At least I shall not be a hypocrite, preaching the word of God with my mind thinking of the shoulders and neck of a woman who does not belong to me.†   (source)
  • All rejoice to-day that he is dead, but all do go about seemingly sorrowing, and shedding the hypocrite's tear, for in that lies safety.†   (source)
  • Think of the hypocrite with his greasy smile penning his leading article, and arranging the foulness of the public placard.†   (source)
  • Don't be a hypocrite, Barbara.†   (source)
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