Showing posts with label hypocritical. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hypocritical. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

hypocritical, hypercritical

Hypocritical or hypocritical means saying that you live by a certain code or standard, but behaving in a way that proves you insincere--
He pretends to be ambitious, but he's actually lazy and somewhat hypocritical.
She's hypocritical --"do as I say, not as I do" is her motto.

Hypercritical or hypercritical means excessively hard to please or fault-finding--
A visit from her hypercritical in-laws always wore her nerves to a frazzle.
Don't let her annoy you; she tends to be hypercritical.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"He says "don't judge" in a hypocritical tone, because he's actually hypercritical."

Note--"Hippocratic" is the name of the oath taken by doctors, named for Hippocrates, a physician of Ancient Greece--
"Above all do no harm" is part of the Hippocratic Oath.