hypocritical

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But until this is a really poor move on Google's part and entirely hypocritical to their earlier stance.

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professing feelings or virtues one does not have; "hypocritical praise"

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adjective

professing feelings or virtues one does not have; "hypocritical praise"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for hypocritical.

adjective

professing feelings or virtues one does not have; "hypocritical praise"

Example sentences

But until this is a really poor move on Google's part and entirely hypocritical to their earlier stance.

It seems hypocritical to laud fragmentation when it happens in iOS and decry it in Android.

Obama's library/museum is going to be even more hypocritical than Bush's.

"This is a dangerously broken and, for Jobs, hypocritical idea.

Extremely hypocritical, but the good news is that relying on Google never was necessary, and is becoming less and less so as time goes on.

You know this is one of those things that sounds terribly hypocritical but in a massive company can easily be just the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing.

[Edit: The reason I'm saying it's hypocritical is because his point was initially obfuscated, and if you took that statement at face value, you wouldn't get the whole point.

"it's entirely unacceptable to break into websites and commit unlawful acts"This is quite the hypocritical statement coming from the FBI.

It is not hypocritical to fight for drug decriminalization but then seek rehabilitation programs for your drug addicted friends.

He's just saying that it's hypocritical to spend your life developing sheep-throwing software, while also complaining about how nobody aims for the stars anymore.

In this case I think the hypocrisy is positive; I would much rather NYT be hypocritical by speaking out against Guantanamo rather than holding their old position.