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hyp·o·crite

 (hĭp′ə-krĭt′)
n.
A person given to hypocrisy.

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

(ˈhɪpəkrɪt)
n
a person who pretends to be what he is not
[C13: from Old French ipocrite, via Late Latin, from Greek hupokritēs one who plays a part, from hupokrinein to feign, from krinein to judge]
ˌhypoˈcritical, ˌhypoˈcritic adj
ˌhypoˈcritically adv
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hyp•o•crite

(ˈhɪp ə krɪt)

n.
a person who practices hypocrisy, esp. a person whose actions belie stated beliefs.
[1175–1225; Middle English ipocrite < Old French < Late Latin hypocrita < Greek hypokritḗs a stage actor, hence one who plays a part, hypocrite =hypokri(nesthai) (see hypocrisy) + -tēs agent suffix]
hyp`o•crit′i•cal, adj.
hyp`o•crit′i•cal•ly, adv.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.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 motiveshypocrite - 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
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]
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hypocrite

noun
A person who practices hypocrisy:
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Translations
مُراءٍ، مُنافِق
pokrytec
hykler
tekopyhä
álszentképmutató
hræsnari
위선자
ipocritipocrită
pokrytec
hinavec
hycklare
ikiyüzlü/riyakâr kimse
伪君子鄉愿

hypocrite

[ˈhɪpəkrɪt] Nhipócrita mf
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hypocrite

[ˈhɪpəkrɪt] nhypocrite mf
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hypocrite

nHeuchler(in) m(f), → Scheinheilige(r) mf
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hypocrite

[ˈhɪpəkrɪt] nipocrita m/f
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hypocrisy

(hiˈpokrəsi) noun
the act or state of pretending to be better than one is or to have feelings or beliefs which one does not actually have.
hypocrite (ˈhipəkrit) noun
a person who is guilty of hypocrisy.
ˌhypoˈcritical (hipəˈkri-) adjective
ˌhypoˈcritically adverb
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References in classic literature ?
"You are a detestable hypocrite and an idiot!" shouted the Party Manager.
But Oedipus spurns the hypocrite, and invokes a dire curse on both his unnatural sons.
"Grounds I you shall have them; and turn to the light that I may see your brazen face blush black, when you hear yourself proved to be a liar and a hypocrite. At a public meeting in the Town-hall yesterday, I had the pleasure of hearing myself insulted by the speaker opposed to me in the question under discussion, by allusions to my private affairs; by cant about monsters without natural affection, family despots, and such trash; and when I rose to answer, I was met by a shout from the filthy mob, where the mention of your name enabled me at once to detect the quarter in which this base attack had originated.
"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.
At most you sniggered at the hypocrite or the fool: the characters expressed themselves in cruel words that seemed wrung out of their hearts by shame and anguish.
All rejoice to- day that he is dead, but all do go about seemingly sorrowing, and shedding the hypocrite's tear, for in that lies safety.
I say that old Mazarino Mazarini is a hypocrite, who burns impatiently to make his niece Queen of France."
Yes, they can all play the hypocrite when they want to take in a fond, misguided woman!'
'No, no,' says her friend, 'I can assure you Sir is no hypocrite, he is really an honest, sober gentleman, and he has certainly been robbed.' 'Nay,' says my governess, 'it may be he has; it is no business of mine, I tell you; I only want to speak with him; my business is of another nature.' 'But,' says her friend, 'let your business be of what nature it will, you cannot see him yet, for he is not fit to be seen, for he is very ill, and bruised very much,' 'Ay,' says my governess, 'nay, then he has fallen into bad hands, to be sure,' And then she asked gravely, 'Pray, where is he bruised?' 'Why, in the head,' says her friend, 'and one of his hands, and his face, for they used him barbarously.' 'Poor gentleman,' says my governess,
"What a hypocrite you are!" said Philip, flushing angrily.
To add to the fiendishness of their cruel savagery was the poignant memory of still crueler barbarities practiced upon them and theirs by the white officers of that arch hypocrite, Leopold II of Belgium, because of whose atrocities they had fled the Congo Free State--a pitiful remnant of what once had been a mighty tribe.