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hypocrite [hip-oh-krit] Noun a person who pretends to be what he or she is not [Greek hupokrinein to pretend] hypocritical adj
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| But Oedipus spurns the hypocrite, and invokes a dire curse on both his unnatural sons. "Brother," resumed the hypocrite, "you are so good to me, and you give me such wise counsels that I always return to you. 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. |
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