hypocritical.

Claiming moral principles or standards that one's own conduct does not follow.

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Words that belong together

• hypocritical concern
• hypocritical judgment

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His hypocritical concern for honesty did not extend to the accounts.

She found the committee's hypocritical judgment harder to bear than its punishment.

Usage notes

Primary category: psychological / character. Forms: Comparative more hypocritical; superlative most hypocritical where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.