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(n.)
The hypocrisy of restricting your child’s screen time while averaging far too much of your own.
The kids pointed out her scrollipocrisy when she opened Wordle minutes after confiscating their phones at the dinner table.
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From the future, or already here?
Scroll + hypocrisy ( from Greek hypokrisis meaning stage-acting ). Here the performing is related to the rules you set and break in the same house, as the double standard between the gap between what you say and what you do grows even wider.
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