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Hypocrisy is the practice of pretending to be something you're not or claiming to believe things you don't actually believe, such as advocating for behaviors you don't follow yourself. It matters because it involves a fundamental dishonesty—whether someone is feigning virtue for appearance's sake or engaging in moral behavior primarily to gain praise rather than from genuine conviction.
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- Subclass of
- attitude
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- topic's main category
- Category:Hypocrisy
- Commons category
- Hypocrisy
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- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- different from
- hypocorism
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