hypocrite (redirected from Hypocrites)

hyp·o·crite  (hp-krt)

n.

A person given to hypocrisy.

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[Middle English ipocrite, from Old French, from Late Latin hypocrita, from Greek hupocrits, actor, from hupokrnesthai, to play a part, pretend; see hypocrisy.]

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hypocrite [ˈhɪpəkrɪt]

n

a person who pretends to be what he is not

[from Old French ipocrite, via Late Latin, from Greek hupokritēs one who plays a part, from hupokrinein to feign, from krinein to judge]

hypocritical  adj

hypocritically  adv

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

hypocrite - a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives dissembler, dissimulator, phoney, phony, pretender beguiler, cheater, deceiver, trickster, slicker, cheat - someone who leads you to believe something that is not true charmer, smoothie, smoothy, sweet talker - someone with an assured and ingratiating manner Tartufe, Tartuffe - a hypocrite who pretends to religious piety (after the protagonist in a play by Moliere) whited sepulcher, whited sepulchre - a person who is inwardly evil but outwardly professes to be virtuous

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hypocrite

noun fraud, deceiver, pretender, charlatan, impostor, pharisee, dissembler, Tartuffe, Pecksniff, Holy Willie, whited sepulchre, phoney or phony (informal) The magazine wrongly suggested he was a liar and a hypocrite.

Quotations
"Their sighan', cantan', grace-proud faces,"
"Their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces" [Robert Burns To the Rev. John M'Math]

Translations

hypocrite [ˈhɪpəkrɪt] N → hipócrita mf

hypocrite [ˈhɪpəkrɪt] n → hypocrite mf

hypocrite

n → Heuchler(in) m(f), → Scheinheilige(r) mf

hypocrite [ˈhɪpəkrɪt] n → ipocrita m/f

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hypocrite [ˈhɪpəkrɪt] n → ipocrita m/f