hypocrisy

The practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behaviour does not conform; pretence of virtue.

• hypocrite/ˈhɪpəkrɪt/(n)伪君子
• hypocritical/ˌhɪpəˈkrɪtɪkl/(adj)虚伪的

• sheer hypocrisy
• accused of hypocrisy
• reek of hypocrisy
• political hypocrisy
• expose hypocrisy

1. 1.It was sheer hypocrisy for the minister to preach fiscal responsibility while spending taxpayer money on luxury travel. (saying one thing, doing another)
2. 2.The company's environmental pledge was dismissed as corporate hypocrisy — its factories were the region's worst polluters. (pretence)

• duplicity/djuːˈplɪsɪti/— deliberate deception — more intentional
• insincerity/ˌɪnsɪnˈsɛrɪti/— lack of genuineness
• pretence/prɪˈtɛns/— a false display

from Greek "hypokrisis" (acting, pretence) — "hypokrinesthai" (to play a part, to pretend) — originally a theatrical term for an actor playing a role