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
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.]
• flip-flopper
• 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
25 November 2024
(noun) infestation with slender threadlike roundworms (filaria) deposited under the skin by the bite of black fleas; when the eyes are involved it can result in blindness; common in Africa and tropical America
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
