What's the difference between hypocrisy and worldliness?

Hypocrisy


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or practice of a hypocrite; a feigning to be what one is not, or to feel what one does not feel; a dissimulation, or a concealment of one's real character, disposition, or motives; especially, the assuming of false appearance of virtue or religion; a simulation of goodness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The UK, France and Germany have been accused of hypocrisy for lobbying behind the scenes to keep outmoded car tests for carbon emissions, but later publicly calling for a European investigation into Volkswagen’s rigging of car air pollution tests .
  • (2) It created a very ugly atmosphere in society – as I was growing up in politics, I disliked the hypocrisy where people had to conceal their own identity.
  • (3) I think the heart of good comedy really lives in truth and reacting to the absurdities, hypocrisies, abuses of power in the world.” Late night television is a no longer a glass of warm milk before bed, it’s a lunch buffet And as TV viewership declines and internet virality becomes as important as real-time eyeballs, cable networks might find that topical comedy is a smart, cost-effective way to grab cross-platform attention.
  • (4) Someone, somewhere, must stand up to the bullying, hectoring hypocrisy of Cameron's "localism" act and his henchman, Pickles, in full "screw democracy" mode.
  • (5) This gesture goes some way to acknowledging the hypocrisy of an organisation which has sacked over 21,000 staff, while still attempting to pay bumper bonuses to the bosses.
  • (6) David Cameron has attacked Labour's "rank hypocrisy" in calling for him to boycott the Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka as he claimed his visit to the country's war-torn north will help give a voice to the dispossessed.
  • (7) Isn't this an exercise in the exposure of hypocrisy, rather than the exposure of a world where hypocrisy is impossible?
  • (8) Labor accused Hockey of hypocrisy given his strong criticisms of the former Gillard government over revenue write-downs.
  • (9) How dare this unqualified mother of three challenge RGCB orthodoxy or attack the hypocrisy of those who condemned viable neighbourhoods as slums in order to build their own golden city from which anyone with choice escaped?
  • (10) The second is that almost eight years after voting in the conclave that chose Benedict XVI, Cardinal Keith O'Brien seems too irredeemably tainted by scandal and allegations of hypocrisy to find himself electing any future popes.
  • (11) It is the England that then prime minister John Major vowed would never vanish in a famous 1993 speech: “Long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and – as George Orwell said – ‘old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist’.” Major was mining Orwell’s wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, whose tone was one of reassurance – the national culture will survive, despite everything: “The gentleness, the hypocrisy, the thoughtlessness, the reverence for law and the hatred of uniforms will remain, along with the suet puddings and the misty skies.” Orwell and Major were both asserting the strength of a national culture at times when Britishness – for both men basically Englishness – was felt to be under threat from outside dangers (war, integration into Europe).
  • (12) Clegg’s comments emerge as the Lib Dem chief secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, accused Cameron and Osborne of “breathtaking hypocrisy” and said he was told during budget talks to look after the workers while the Conservatives looked after the bosses.
  • (13) He said he had referred the questions which were emailed to him to Lord Justice Leveson, the judge leading the inquiry into press ethics, saying they were an example of "blinding hypocrisy" and warned that he was considering a complaint about the newspaper to the Press Complaints Commission.
  • (14) Hypocrisy is one word for the motives behind the deployment of the "Peninsula Shield" forces in Bahrain last week.
  • (15) Hypocrisy and double standards in respect to gender are ingrained in cycling and many other sports but this is hidden in reports of events.
  • (16) But Oliver listed his projected new team, including Rudy Guiliani and Chris Christie, and noted the hypocrisy.
  • (17) In a video statement , the group criticised what it said was Europe’s hypocrisy in fortifying its borders in the south just as it celebrated the fall of an old border in the east.
  • (18) So yes, let’s point out Ryan’s hypocrisy and take him to task on his policies – but let’s do it strategically.
  • (19) Anti-Trump protesters to descend on NBC headquarters over SNL appearance Read more This weekend, however, the latest leg of the tour has countless Latino organizations and their allies declaring that NBC’s Trump hypocrisy will no longer be tolerated.
  • (20) In a wide-ranging interview, Wallace also accused Salmond of hypocrisy by portraying his Scottish National party government as a champion of devolution after it argued for even greater tax-raising and borrowing powers for the Scottish parliament while it remains in the UK.

Worldliness


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality of being worldly; a predominant passion for obtaining the good things of this life; covetousness; addictedness to gain and temporal enjoyments; worldly-mindedness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Founded on the work of the anthropologist Mary Douglas, it is argued that the rejection of this medical therapy is based on perceptions of pollution and purity inherent in the Watch Tower Society's ideological concept of anti-worldliness.
  • (2) Careerism and the search for a promotion come under the category of spiritual worldliness.
  • (3) He has talked of his current squad being the best he has had in terms of their worldliness and the balance between youth and experience.
  • (4) Ahed, a slight, elfin-faced girl, is a discomforting mix of worldliness and naivety.
  • (5) The response to this relentlessly publicised public life, to its ambitious mix of worthiness and worldliness and domesticity, has been overwhelmingly positive.
  • (6) And as such, they are likely to bring a curious mix of absolute vulnerability and worldliness; dependence and aloofness.
  • (7) If on occasion he was prone to worldliness and cynicism, he nevertheless helped to create a society which provided, for the vast majority of British people, a happier and more secure life than they had ever known.
  • (8) From London to Lima, Xi’s speeches are peppered with literary and cultural references carefully curated to project an image of wisdom and worldliness.
  • (9) Spiritual worldliness is a form of religious anthropocentrism that has Gnostic elements.

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