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hypocritical

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hyp·o·crit·i·cal  (hp-krt-kl)
adj.
1. Characterized by hypocrisy: hypocritical praise.
2. Being a hypocrite: a hypocritical rogue.
hypo·criti·cal·ly adv.
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Adj.1.hypocritical - professing feelings or virtues one does not have; "hypocritical praise"
insincere - lacking sincerity; "a charming but thoroughly insincere woman"; "their praise was extravagant and insincere"
hypocritical
adjective insincere, false, fraudulent, hollow, deceptive, spurious, two-faced, deceitful, sanctimonious, specious, duplicitous, dissembling, canting, Janus-faced, pharisaical, phoney or phony (informal) It seems hypocritical to pay someone to do the dirty work for me.
Translations
hypocritical [ˌhɪpəˈkrɪtɪkəl] ADJ → hipócrita
hypocritical [ˌhɪpəˈkrɪtɪkəl] adj → hypocrite
hypocritical
adj, hypocritically
adv → heuchlerisch, scheinheilig
hypocritical [ˌhɪpəˈkrɪtɪk/əl] adj → ipocrita
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She is a selfish, hypocritical woman, and I have no opinion of her.
Pride and Prejudice by Austen, Jane View in context
We did not think it hypocritical to draw over our vagaries the curtain of a decent silence.
Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
The children knew Levin very little, and could not remember when they had seen him, but they experienced in regard to him none of that strange feeling of shyness and hostility which children so often experience towards hypocritical, grown-up people, and for which they are so often and miserably punished.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
 
 
 
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