hypocrisy 
hy·poc·risy (hi päk′rə sē)
noun pl. -·sies
a pretending to be what one is not, or to feel what one does not feel; esp., a pretense of virtue, piety, etc.
Etymology: ME ipocrisie < OFr < L hypocrisis, mimicry (in LL(Ec), pretended sanctity) < Gr hypokrisis, acting a part (in LXX and N.T., hypocrisy) < hypokrinesthai, to play a part < hypo-, hypo- + krinesthai, to dispute < krinein, to separate: see harvest
hypocrisy
n.
Antonyms
Converse of object
- denounce: We also denounce the slimy hypocrisy of the " human rights " groups.
- expose: What he said exposes the hypocrisy of the Bush administration regarding the present situation in Iraq.
- condemn: It has left a sour taste in the mouth of the British worker, who is quick to detect and condemn hypocrisy.
- highlight: What Skaggs does is manipulate the media in order to highlight hypocrisy.
- reveal: Revealing this hypocrisy in so many different aspects makes this book a real masterpiece - it's John le Carré at his best!
- avoid: But keep it really private, and we will avoid hypocrisy.
Preposition: at
- heart: There is a pungent smell of hypocrisy at the heart of government?
Adjective modifier
- blatant: Glenys Kinnock today blasted the ' blatant hypocrisy ' of the EU in its engagement with regimes guilty of human rights abuses.
- breathtaking: This is breathtaking hypocrisy on the part of a Labor minister.
- staggering: We show this video as we want the public to realize the true staggering hypocrisy and moral cowardice of this corrupt Labor government.
- sheer: He believes only Tory councilors should claim back expenses they incur for attending meetings - sheer hypocrisy.
- utter: At this point the utter hypocrisy of The New Statesman should be noted.
- rank: It looks a lot like rank hypocrisy from here.
Noun used with modifier
- government: The new shift in policy has led magic mushroom shop owners to detect a whiff of government hypocrisy.
Preposition: on
- part: Such hypocrisy on the part of Mr Reid is breathtaking.
Preposition: of
- trade: Losing the war on terror Crawle and the world The hypocrisy of free trade Terrorizing minority communities?
- government: It's much easier to determine the hypocrisy of the government.
- society: One of the main problems in dealing with drugs issues is the apparent hypocrisy of society generally.
L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend a' la vertu. Hypocrisy is a tribute which vice pays to virtue.
Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any mancanpursue; it needs anunceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit.It cannot, like adulteryor gluttony, be practised at spare moments; it is a whole- time job.
For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone, By his permissive will, through heav'n and earth.
'Where they got you stationed now, Luke?' 'At the p-p-p-present time in Norfolk at the Navy base,' Luke answered,'m-m-making the world safe for hypocrisy.'
College football today is one of the last great strongholds of genuine old-fashioned American hypocrisy.
A Conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy.
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