hypocrite
hypo·crite (hip′ə krit′)
noun
Etymology: ME ipocrite < OFr < L hypocrita, stage actor (in LL(Ec), hypocrite) < Gr hypokritēs, an actor (in LXX & N.T., a pretender, hypocrite) < hypokrinesthai: see hypocrisy
Related Forms:
- hypocritical hyp′o·crit′i·cal (-krit′i kəl) adjective
- hypocritically hyp′o·crit′i·cally adverb
hypocrite
n.
Converse of object
- lie: When you're caught, pants down, as a lying, hypocrite - its time to go.
- become: On the whole, Matthew tends to blacken Judas even more than Mark already did: Judas becomes a greedy, insolent hypocrite 46.
- make: First, Allah himself made the hypocrites go astray, yet he orders them killed.
- have: We prefer to have that hypocrite in office where he cannot hide behind his left face.
- feel: They felt hypocrites; God began to feel very unreal to them.
Adjective modifier
- religious: Romans 2 v 1-3 tells us that we are all at risk of being religious hypocrites.
- such: Both Jude and 2 Peter were written to expose the wanton behavior of such hypocrites.
- pious: It has been professed by pious hypocrites, & followed by people who have adorned it.
- total: Of course I'm a total hypocrite ( sp?
- bloody: My banner reads no respect for Bush I think he's a bloody hypocrite.
Modifies a noun
- thing: Non-western people adding texas holdem poker site hypocrite thing i. True it must call the human.
- lecteur: At end of the first section: ' You hypocrite lecteur!
Noun used with modifier
- ye: O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
- word: St. Mark 7 v 5. The English word hypocrite comes from the Greek word for actor.
- Pharisee: And that is why Jesus called the Pharisees hypocrites.
Possessives
- hope: In Job 8:13 it says, " The hypocrite's hope shall perish.
Possessives
- word: The word ' hypocrite ' is, in Greek, simply the word ' actor ' .
Preposition: in
- church: Everywhere this farmer went, he talked about hypocrites in that church.
Patriotism is seen not onlyas the last refuge of the scoundrel but as the first bolt-hole of the hypocrite. See Johnson 444:8.
'You! hypocrite lecteur!ömonsemblable,ömonfre' re!' See Baudelaire 64:53.
Hypocrite lecteur,ömon semblable,ömon fre' re! Hypocrite readerömy fellow manömy brother! See Eliot 306:55.
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
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