HYPOCRITE

hypocrite, dissembler, dissimulator, phony, phoney, pretender

(noun) 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

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

hypocrite (plural hypocrites)

Someone who practices hypocrisy, who pretends to hold beliefs, or whose actions are not consistent with their claimed beliefs. [from early 13th c.]

Synonyms

• flip-flopper

Anagrams

• rheotypic

Source: Wiktionary


Hyp"o*crite, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. hypocrita, Gr. Hypocrisy.]

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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