hypocritically

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hypocritically
Adverb
  • This term means to praise someone excessively and insincerely.
    Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 24 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • But there is a cost to keeping rates artificially low for too long.
    Allison Schrager, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
  • That coincided with a drop in demand for Chinese UCO after the European Union probed Chinese imports for artificially low prices.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 15 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • The rumors falsely claimed that the legendary guitarist criticized Bad Bunny for wearing a dress during past performances — an accusation Santana called baseless.
    Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Pulte ended up wiring the former associate $250,000 that was premised, in part, on the associate falsely promising that Ye would provide financial and public support for Pulte’s online philanthropy, court records show.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • What can be said about the Kalimotxo that hasn’t been pretentiously asserted by an undergraduate who just learned about it?
    Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 11 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Dawn of the Dead's flood of blood-and-guts is among the most memorable in film history, if only for the unnaturally vivid shades of red.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Earlier video models often cheated to satisfy prompts, with objects teleporting or morphing unnaturally.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Additional uses of geolocation data, the providers say, include proving a bettor is dishonestly disputing credit card charges, revealing sign-up bonus abuse or showing that someone is illegally making proxy wagers across state lines.
    Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 16 Oct. 2025
  • As naive as that may sound in a world where so many self-evident rights and wrongs are being routinely, dishonestly evaluated and reevaluated, the series elevates simple truths in ways that are downright inspirational.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 4 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • Just in the past two winters, deceptively average rain and snowfall totals statewide masked the extremely dry conditions in Southern California that contributed to devastating fires as well as flood events across the state from powerful atmospheric river events.
    Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Li, a writer whose stories are compressed and deceptively simple, spoke with humor and a certain hardness, perhaps born of the clarity of unimaginable loss.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • If donning the jacket leather side up, pops of sherpa fuzziness will still be yours to enjoy, as the coat’s patch pockets are artfully topped by the material.
    Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Few filmmakers have mined their own life as ruthlessly, or as artfully, as Noah Baumbach.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2025
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“Hypocritically.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hypocritically. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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