(a.) Of or pertaining to a hypocrite, or to hypocrisy; as, a hypocriticalperson; a hypocritical look; a hypocritical action.
Example Sentences:
(1) As a republican I, like Mr Corbyn, would be a hypocrite to sing this.
(2) Therefore, according to this view all high-ranking Libyan officials were intrinsically self-serving hypocrites.
(3) She said: “We felt it would be quite hypocritical [to have a church wedding] when it’s not really what we believe in.
(4) The clashes between the moralistic Levin and his friend Oblonsky, sometimes affectionate, sometimes angry, and Levin's linkage of modernity to Oblonsky's attitudes – that social mores are to be worked around and subordinated to pleasure, that families are base camps for off-base nooky – undermine one possible reading of Anna Karenina , in which Anna is a martyr in the struggle for the modern sexual freedoms that we take for granted, taken down by the hypocritical conservative elite to which she, her lover and her husband belong.
(5) The hypocritical Greens remained absolutely silent while these projects were advanced, but now they feign an interest.
(6) Now he says it when he’s rich, he’s a hypocrite.
(7) But they are usually less accepting of hypocrites and liars, and especially those that challenge the establishment with such vehemence.
(8) This position is both morally bankrupt and hypocritical.
(9) For London's mayor had not only long refused to meet the RMT leader, but only a month before rather encouraged the public to misunderstand him by making hay with Crow's supposedly hypocritical cruise trip and accusing him of "holding a gun" to the head of the capital ?
(10) April's family had to endure the "spectacle of your hypocritical sympathy for their loss and of your tears", the judge told Bridger, saying any tears were motivated purely by self-pity.
(11) It's convenient to project that back on to someone personally and say they're a hypocrite.
(12) He will back Johnson’s assessment, while also saying it is hypocritical for the government to continue with arms sales to the region.
(13) But nothing in the photographs of Gaddafi wounded, dead, dragged through the streets, and finally on display, rotting in public, has been anything like as disgusting as the thoroughly hypocritical and self-deceiving international reaction to these pictures.
(14) Of course, this is totally hypocritical: their ideology is based on denying national statehood, so they are against establishing a Somali state.
(15) I wasn't attending to its meaning as I said it, and if I thought about it, I felt a hypocrite.
(16) Men in public life, meanwhile, are increasingly unsure whether it’s worse to embrace feminism (hypocritical bastard!)
(17) "I'm not a hypocrite, I'm not going to lie to people but if it was impossible I would say," he said, before defining the necessary "miracle" as "three wins and a draw."
(18) They and other ideologues in the extremist movement saw this lack of unity – rather than the US, "hypocrite, apostate" regimes in the Middle East or the supposed lack of faith of other Muslims – as their biggest problem, at least in the short term.
(19) Ed Balls's bluster is confused and hypocritical when the reality is he'd do it all again," Fallon said.
(20) Worse, it actually helps deflect anger from the Nigerian politicians robbing their own people to the “hypocritical west which acts holier than thou while helping steal our money”.
Insincere
Definition:
(a.) Not being in truth what one appears to be; not sincere; dissembling; hypocritical; disingenuous; deceitful; false; -- said of persons; also of speech, thought; etc.; as, insincere declarations.
(a.) Disappointing; imperfect; unsound.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a statement, the network added: "The crackdown on activists, being directly related to the anniversary, demonstrates contempt towards international human rights norms and insincerity in the government's own pledges and commitments to promote human rights in China ."
(2) In London, for instance, the insincere granite cladding of Canary Wharf owes much to his example.
(3) The health prospects of Mubarak, who has long been ill, could have a major impact on the volatile internal politics of Egypt , where tensions between pro-reform protesters and the interim authorities – which are accused by some of being too slow in holding the Mubarak regime to account and insincere in their efforts to build democratic institutions – are threatening to bubble over.
(4) Did glossing over his feelings during the interview reveal Prince as insincere or more concerned with selling his album than engaging with real life?
(5) It took two weeks for him to address the issue publicly, while his wife Patience was accused of melodrama smacking of insincerity when she met mothers of the kidnapped girls.
(6) Almost anyone will say an insincere 'sorry' when they hope it will avert the loss of liberty, or a bag of sweets, or even a seat in Parliament."
(7) It’s what happens when weaponised insincerity is applied to structured ignorance.
(8) But to reach those heights and win popular backing, Sisi has been forced to adopt the vocabulary of revolution, however insincerely, and issue promises – on economic justice, an end to corruption, an improvement in living standards – that his unreformed state will not be able to deliver.
(9) Not because either statement is insincere: all writers genuinely want people to read their books and all law-enforcement agencies really believe they need more powers.
(10) All around me were other parents, similarly shouting and cheering at their mostly embarrassed little ones – and after each race triumphant handshakes, sarcastic congratulations and insincere condolences were offered.
(11) "The Daily Express is not in the business of conning our readers with gimmicks and insincere campaigns.
(12) "This seeming refusal to accept that the contents of his emails were in fact sexist and inappropriate to my mind completely undermines his public apology and leads to only one conclusion: that it was insincere and therefore unsustainable in the court of public opinion," he said.
(13) Iain Duncan Smith has accused David Cameron of insincerity and an attempt to deceive the public over EU immigration, as the out campaign stepped up its attacks on the prime minister’s character.
(14) A glance at what Smith has said in the past on certain subjects, and what he is saying about them now, has left him open to the charge of insincerity, and there were a couple of moments when he appeared to trip.
(15) Chief Inspector Ted Antill, of Nottinghamshire police, said: "While this recent example may be amusing, it illustrates the sort of insincere calls we have to deal with on a daily basis in the control room.
(16) Smith and his cronies were kept in power by a combination of white redoubt solidarity in southern Africa, deep divisions among Rhodesian-African tribal groups and guerrilla movements, irresolution in London, inertia and insincerity elsewhere - and a small group of white Rhodesian, South African and British army officers, police, security men and sanctions-busters whose cunning knew no bounds.
(17) Sommer, who volunteered for the Bob Dole campaign as a kid and “reluctantly” voted for George W Bush in 2004, said she found Trump’s gambit early in the 2016 primary race to sit out a debate, to ostentatiously raise money for veterans, to be insincere.
(18) In the preface he wrote: "I do not believe the fable that men read travel books to escape from reality: they read to escape into it, from a crazy wonderland of armaments, cant, political speeches at once insincere and illiterate, propaganda, and social injustice which the lunacy of humanity has constructed over a period of years."
(19) The word "sorry" – even if said insincerely – carries a sense of personal responsibility.
(20) Only last month, his insincere clapping upon being booked against Barcelona swiftly saw him receive his marching orders.