Hypocrites
[hɪpə,krɪts]
Examples
- These men are not conscious hypocrites. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- They may pledge and make pledge,' continued he, scornfully; 'they nobbut make liars and hypocrites. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- We are neither hypocrites or fools --for the rest, 'Dost thou think because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Others were hypocrites and deliberately meant to deceive. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- 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. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Tender slaves that they are, they must needs be hypocrites and weak. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The best of women (I have heard my grandmother say) are hypocrites. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The promise I had made to the d?mon weighed upon my mind, like Dante's iron cowl on the heads of the hellish hypocrites. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
Edited by Glenn