hypocrite

Noun

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

pretender cheat deceiver phoney phony dissembler dissimulator jesuit judas pharisee faker rascal poser actor canter
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Antonyms

frank casanova certain open true direct
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Hypernyms

cheat cheater deceiver slicker beguiler trickster

Hyponyms

charmer smoothie tartuffe smoothy tartufe sweet talker

Phrases with the word

act the hypocrite canting hypocrite be a hypocrite

Anagrams

rheotypic

Examples

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. William Hazlitt

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation. Adlai Stevenson II

Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother! Charles Baudelaire

The hypocrite is known by his actions, not by his clothes. Mexican Proverb

Don't be a hypocrite. Romanian Proverb

Better to be known as a sinner than a hypocrite. Traditional Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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