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hypocrite

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hyp·o·crite  (hp-krt)
n.
A person given to hypocrisy.
[Middle English ipocrite, from Old French, from Late Latin hypocrita, from Greek hupocrits, actor, from hupokrnesthai, to play a part, pretend; see hypocrisy.]
hypocrite [hip-oh-krit]
Noun
a person who pretends to be what he or she is not [Greek hupokrinein to pretend]
hypocritical adj
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.hypocritehypocrite - 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
hypocrite
noun fraud, deceiver, pretender, charlatan, impostor, pharisee, dissembler, Tartuffe, Pecksniff, Holy Willie, whited sepulchre, phoney or phony (informal)
Translations
hypocrite [ˈhɪpəkrɪt] n → hipócrita m/f
hypocrite [ˈhɪpəkrɪt] n → hypocrite m/f
hypocrite [ˈhɪpəkrɪt] hypocrisy n → Heuchler(in) m(f)
hypocrite [ˈhɪpəkrɪt] n → ipocrita m/f


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But Oedipus spurns the hypocrite, and invokes a dire curse on both his unnatural sons.
Oedipus At Colonus by Sophocles View in context
"Brother," resumed the hypocrite, "you are so good to me, and you give me such wise counsels that I always return to you.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
Let the advocates of a falsely called Philanthropy plead as they may for the abrogation of the Irregular Penal Laws, I for my part have never known an Irregular who was not also what Nature evidently intended him to be -- a hypocrite, a misanthropist, and, up to the limits of his power, a perpetrator of all manner of mischief.
Flatland by Abbott, Edwin View in context
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