hypocritically

Definition of hypocriticallynext

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Adverb
  • This term means to praise someone excessively and insincerely.
    Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 24 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • The ordinance aims to protect Santa Ana tenants from inflated or unfair rent increases that officials say can be driven by pricing tools, ones that critics argue allow landlords to artificially inflate rental prices, often working in coordination to manipulate competitive market rates.
    Mona Darwish, Oc Register, 3 Mar. 2026
  • In a chaotic and unpredictable world, somebody with artificially TV-friendly looks stands in front of a map that isn’t there and attempts to prognosticate the unknowable future.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 27 Feb. 2026
Adverb
  • Toni Rice, 44, pleaded guilty to charges of criminal mischief, tampering with physical evidence, intimidating a participant in the legal process and tampering with a witness, as well as misdemeanor charges of failing to stop and render aid, falsely reporting an incident and official misconduct.
    Caroline Neal, Louisville Courier Journal, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The caller falsely claimed there was a warrant for her arrest and pressured her to pay thousands of dollars to avoid jail.
    Christopher Harris, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2026
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
  • Some of the earliest sculptures ever depict naked women with unnaturally exaggerated breasts, hips and pubic triangles, but scholars still disagree about how to interpret them.
    Anna Swartwood House, The Conversation, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The water is actually unnaturally clear because more than 400 trillion invasive Black Sea quagga mussels have taken over the bottom of the lake.
    Theodore J. Karamanski, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2026
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
  • To help fill their coffers even more, the lobbyists deceitfully expanded the definition of those notch years to include everyone born through 1926.
    Tom Margenau, Dallas Morning News, 1 Feb. 2026
  • But through no fault of the actress, the film starts to sag as Erika morphs from intoxicating vixen to deceitfully manipulative monster.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 24 Jan. 2026
Adverb
  • Consumers have to think twice about buying from a foreign producer that uses child labor or any retailer that advertises deceptively or sells customer data.
    Peter Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 12 Mar. 2026
  • As models walk their final runways and editors catch evening flights out of Paris Fashion Week, this week’s standout beauty looks appear almost deceptively straightforward.
    Arden Fanning Andrews, Vogue, 11 Mar. 2026
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“Hypocritically.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hypocritically. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.

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