About The Word Hypocrite
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Hypocrite
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What's The Definition Of Hypocrite?
[n] a person who professes beliefs and opinions that they do not hold
Synonyms | Synonyms for Hypocrite: dissembler | phoney | phony | pretender Related Terms | Find terms related to Hypocrite: actor | affecter | ape | attitudinizer | bluffer | canter | canting hypocrite | charlatan | con man | confidence man | conformist | copier | copycat | copyist | counterfeiter | cuckoo | deceiver | dissembler | dissimulator | double-dealer | echo | echoer | echoist | fair-weather friend | faker | false friend | flimflam man | flimflammer | forger | formalist | fraud | Holy Willie | humbug | imitator | impersonator | imposter | impostor | Joseph Surface | liar | lip server | lip worshiper | masquerader | Mawworm | mealymouth | mime | mimer | mimic | mimicker | mocker | mockingbird | monkey | mountebank | parrot | Pecksniff | Pharisee | phony | pietist | pious fraud | plagiarist | poll-parrot | polly | polly-parrot | poser | poseur | pretender | quack | ranter | religionist | religious hypocrite | sanctimonious fraud | sham | sheep | simulator | sniveler | snuffler | spiritual humbug | summer soldier | Tartuffe | whited sepulcher See Also | beguiler | charmer | cheat | cheater | deceiver | slicker | smoothie | smoothy | sweet talker | Tartufe | Tartuffe | trickster | whited sepulcher | whited sepulchre Hypocrite In Webster's Dictionary \Hyp"o*crite\, n. [F., fr. L. hypocrita, Gr. ? one who
plays a part on the stage, a dissembler, feigner. See
{Hypocrisy}.]
One who plays a part; especially, one who, for the purpose of
winning approbation of favor, puts on a fair outside seeming;
one who feigns to be other and better than he is; a false
pretender to virtue or piety; one who simulates virtue or
piety.
The hypocrite's hope shall perish. --Job viii.
13.
I dare swear he is no hypocrite, but prays from his
heart. --Shak.
Syn: Deceiver; pretender; cheat. See {Dissembler}.
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