Someone who doesn't practice what they preach.
Someone who claims to hate something they do all the time, but makes lengthy excuses as ti why they do not qualify as that thing.
She's such a hypocrite. She spent the entire class talking about the evils of Capitalism, then durting lunch, she got out her latest-model iPhone & bought tickets for 3 Disney movies from Fandango.
Someone who condemns a thing but does that exact thing themselves. E.g. someone who comments on an Instagram post "Attention seeking behaviour" implying that such behaviour is to be frowned upon, but in so commenting they have invited attention. Such folks might then get into massive long flame threads if picked up on this, inviting yet more attention. In the end they may have scored more attention than the OP.
A: "Attention seeking behaviour"
B: "Dude, you're such a hypocrite"
A: "I'm not a hypocrite, you creep"
B: "Are so - you telling me you posted that comment hoping *nobody* would notice? Hypocrite."
A person who does what they are against.
Synonym: Louise.
Girl: "Abortion should be illegal." Two days later girl gets abortion.
Girl: "She said she was against girls getting abortions, and then she went and got one." "What a hypocrite... What a Louise.."
1. People or persons who mandate or expect a certain standard of behaviour while simultaneously not applying those standards to themselves.
2. People who criticize others for behaviour or beliefs that they already practice in private.
3. Fox News.
It was reported across multiple news networks today what their COVID-19 mitigation measures are within their studios. It was discovered that Fox News had long since mandated employees disclose their vaccination status, and that all off-camera employees are required to wear masks. This is despite the continuing anti-mask, anti-vaccine mandate calls and criticisms shared by their daytime and nightly talk show hosts. Individuals who have been openly contemptuous of mask mandates and hostile towards the accredited experts, while their news room reports the scientific facts as is, and their parent company requires them to abide the same practices. This was the latest example that exposes Fox News has being a den of hypocrites, who in this case have spread dangerous misinformation they don't believe in or practice.