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hypocrite
[ hip-uh-krit ]
noun
- a person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that they do not actually possess, especially a person whose actions belie stated beliefs.
- a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, especially one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie their public statements.
hypocrite
/ ˈhɪpəkrɪt /
noun
- a person who pretends to be what he is not
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Derived Forms
- ˌhypoˈcritically, adverb
- ˌhypoˈcritical, adjective
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Other Words From
- hypo·criti·cal adjective
- super·hypo·crite noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hypocrite1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hypocrite1
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Example Sentences
Does wildlife campaigner Prince Charles's hunting habit make him a hypocrite?
Arkansas Congressman Tom Cotton is a dangerous man and a hypocrite.
Eric Cantor was a noxious, cookie-cutter, U.S. Chamber, GOP hypocrite.
Therefore, if a liberal makes too much money advocating on behalf of the poor, she or he becomes a hypocrite.
Your criticism of me as a hypocrite is lame, weak and not really thought out.
The true man stands out in his native dignity and the gilding is rubbed off the hypocrite.
Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thy own eye, and then shalt thou see to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
But while she cared little for his adulations, she did not because of them consider him a scoundrel, nor necessarily a hypocrite.
Three shall not enter Paradise—the scoffer, the hypocrite, and the slanderer.
But in the priestly city, where education consists in being taught to play the hypocrite and to lie, traitors abound.
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