Hypocrite
['hɪpəkrɪt] or ['hɪpə'krɪt]
Definition
(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.
Checker: Wilbur--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Pharisee, formalist, pietist, religionist, canter.[2]. Dissembler, deceiver, impostor, pretender, cheat.
Editor: Stacy
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Feigner, pretender, dissembler, imposter, cheat, deceitful_person
ANT:Saint, believer, Christian, simpleton, dupe, bigot, fanatic, lover_of_truth
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Definition
n. one who practises hypocrisy.—adj. Hypocrit′ical practising hypocrisy.—adv. Hypocrit′ically.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that anyone has acted the hypocrite with you, you will be turned over to your enemies by false friends. To dream that you are a hypocrite, denotes that you will prove yourself a deceiver and be false to friends.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. One who professing virtues that he does not respect secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
A horse dealer. From Grk. hippos, horse, and kroteo, to beat. One who beats you on a horse trade.
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Examples
- She cried bitterly over this reflection when her uncle was gone; and her cousins, on seeing her with red eyes, set her down as a hypocrite. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- That abject hypocrite, Pumblechook, nodded again, and said, with a patronizing laugh, It's more than that, Mum. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- But far from being the scheming hypocrite his enemies say he is, Mr. Bryan is too simple for the task of statesmanship. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Another minute, and she will despise me for a hypocrite, thought I; and an impulse of fury against Reed, Brocklehurst, and Co. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He is such an incarnate hypocrite, that whatever object he pursues, he must pursue crookedly. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Yes, he would be a great hypocrite; and he is not that yet. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I'd ha' thought yo' a hypocrite, I'm afeard, if yo' hadn't, for all yo'r a parson, or rayther because yo'r a parson. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- As saint or knave, pilgrim or hypocrite? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And Johnson said, 'You may judge what a _hypocrite_ he is. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He will sow his wild oats, she would say, and is worth far more than that puling hypocrite of a brother of his. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The sanctimonious hypocrite, the sleek speculator, and others whom he has probably encountered in life are done to the queen's taste. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Well, he always was a fine hypocrite, was my brother Peter. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I may be what you call bad, but I am at least not a hypocrite. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It would be infinitely worse to have known you a hypocrite. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- These men are not conscious hypocrites. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- They may pledge and make pledge,' continued he, scornfully; 'they nobbut make liars and hypocrites. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- We are neither hypocrites or fools --for the rest, 'Dost thou think because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Others were hypocrites and deliberately meant to deceive. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- There may be coarse hypocrites, who consciously affect beliefs and emotions for the sake of gulling the world, but Bulstrode was not one of them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Tender slaves that they are, they must needs be hypocrites and weak. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The best of women (I have heard my grandmother say) are hypocrites. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The promise I had made to the d?mon weighed upon my mind, like Dante's iron cowl on the heads of the hellish hypocrites. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
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