pay lip service to something
Her strongest criticism was reserved for the prime minister whom she accused of 'nauseating hypocrisy'.她对首相的批评最为激烈，指责他“虚伪得令人作呕”。
I'm amazed at the hypocrisy of the man - buying a foreign car after urging everyone else to buy British products.
In constantly criticizing others for being intolerant while refusing to hear anyone else's view, they are guilty of supreme hypocrisy.
His behaviour in this whole affair does rather savour of hypocrisy - he's certainly not without blame himself.
Why can't politicians just be honest with themselves and stop all this hypocrisy?

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Lies, lying & hypocrisy
a pack of liesidiom
artifice
bad faith
black is whiteidiom
cakeism
falsehood
falsification
feed someone a lineidiom
fib
fiction
lie
mythologize
perjure
perjury
polygraph
someone can talk!idiom
stretch the truthidiom
weasel words
white lie
whopper

hypocrisy | American Dictionary

hypocrisy
noun[ U ]
 disapprovingus/hɪˈpɑk·rə·si/
pretending to be what you are not, or pretending to believe something that you do not:
Critics are accusing him of hypocrisy and deceit.

hypocrite

noun[ C ]us/ˈhɪp·əˌkrɪt/
The biggest hypocrites in sports are owners who yell about players’ salaries.

hypocritical

adjective[ not gradable ]us/ˌhɪp·əˈkrɪt̬·ɪ·kəl/
It’s hypocritical for him to criticize her for doing the same things that he does.

Examples of hypocrisy

hypocrisy
She is forced to acknowledge the hypocrisy of a father who concealed 'the hideous mystery' regarding the mills that generated all his wealth.
His descent into hypocrisy and finally into openly acknowledged roguery outlines the corruptive effects of financial speculation.
He inveighs against the euphemistic hypocrisy of liberal attitudes.
Another interesting aspect of this situation is the fluidity of these identity formations and the level of hypocrisy involved.
Most intriguingly, however, his calculations, like his stockmarket speculations, expand proportionally as his financial hypocrisy escalates.
It would be simplistic to see here the ultimate proof of mere hypocrisy or complete alienation.
Elster conjectures that strategic arguing illustrates the more general phenomenon of the 'civilizing effect of hypocrisy'.
Attention is drawn to the common hypocrisy whereby this kind of neogovernment undertaking is often protected in law.
The blatant hypocrisy of designing a ready-to-live world must be eradicated.
Dickens himself was not unaware of his hypocrisy in the matter.
These daily experiences create an obvious temptation to 'hypocrisy' or shirking of the work of the movement.
Male hypocrisy, secret sins men committed, was to blame for the social disorder of the 1930s.
All parties appear to gain by denouncing the hypocrisy behind the subterfuge of denying that the con-ict had been a war.
She had many frustrations with the hypocrisy which she found in much religious life.
Organized hypocrisy, in contrast, is the situation where a norm is durable, but where behaviour frequently violates it.
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Collocations withhypocrisy

hypocrisy

These are words often used in combination with hypocrisy.

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charge of hypocrisy
This created a barrier to entry into church culture, especially since to profess involvement while failing to live up to these expectations was to incur the charge of hypocrisy.
gross hypocrisy
We see today an exercise in gross hypocrisy.
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