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Hypocrisy

Hypocrisy is the practice of feigning what one is not or professing what one does not believe. The word "hypocrisy" entered the English language c. 1200 with the meaning "the sin of pretending to virtue or goodness". Today, "hypocrisy" often refers to advocating behaviors that one does not practice. However, the term can also refer to other forms of…

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related to Further reading · 149
Hypocrisy → Adam, Aldo, An Analysis, Anders, Andrew, April, August, Austen, Barton, Brian, Broadview Press, Brown, Business Ethics, Béla, Cambridge University Press, Caviola, Cite, CiteSeerX, Clark, Cognition
related to history · 24
Hypocrisy → Adam Smith, Anglican, Baptists, Bees, Bernard Mandeville, Congregationalists, English, Enlightenment, European, Fable, French Augustinianism, He, High Church Anglicans, In, Mandeville, Montaigne, Nonconformists, Occasional Conformity Act, On, Protestant
related to Philosophy · 17
Hypocrisy → Accordingly, Daniel Miller, Defenses, Duff, If, Is, It, Kyle Fritz, Most, Niccolò Machiavelli, No-hypocrisy, Other, Patrick Todd, Philosophical, Recently, Typically, You
related to United States · 17
Hypocrisy → American, American POWs, He, In, It, Japan, Japanese, Jay, Martin Jay, Mendacity, On Lying, Politics, Radio Tokyo, The, The Virtues, United States, World War II
see also · 17
Hypocrisy → Accusation, Attributing, Beam, Exploitative, Fabrication, Fallacy, Gospel, Hate, Inconsistent, Indication, Informal, Jesus, MatthewThe, Mote, Parable, Pejorative, Proverbial
related to Benefits · 9
Hypocrisy → Although, Gerson, Hypocritical, Judith, Let Us Not Be, Michael Gerson, Political, Shklar, There
related to Islam · 6
Hypocrisy → God, In Islam, Islam, Quranic Chapter, The Hypocrites, The Qur'an
related to Etymology · 5
Hypocrisy → Alternatively, Greek, The, This, Thus
related to Social psychology · 5
Hypocrisy → Accordingly, Alternatively, For, Individuals, Social
related to External links · 4
Hypocrisy → The, Wikiquote, Wiktionary Quotations, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2

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Hypocrisyis apractice of feigning what one is not or professing what one does not believe0.90text
Hypocrisyrelated to BenefitsAlthough0.60section
Hypocrisyrelated to BenefitsThere0.60section
Hypocrisyrelated to BenefitsPolitical0.60section
Hypocrisyrelated to BenefitsJudith0.60section
Hypocrisyrelated to BenefitsShklar0.60section
Hypocrisyrelated to BenefitsLet Us Not Be0.60section
Hypocrisyrelated to BenefitsHypocritical0.60section
Hypocrisyrelated to BenefitsMichael Gerson0.60section
Hypocrisyrelated to BenefitsGerson0.60section
Hypocrisyrelated to Carl JungIn Switzerland Carl Jung0.60section
Hypocrisyrelated to Carl JungJung0.60section

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