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hypocrite Definition

hypo·crite (hipə krit′)

noun

a person who pretends to be what he or she is not; one who pretends to be better than is really so, or to be pious, virtuous, etc. without really being so

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

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hypocrite Synonyms

hypocrite

n.

pretender, fraud, faker, dissembler, deceiver, casuist, charlatan, poseur, poser, pharisee, bigot, quack, tartuffe, backslider, whited sepulcher, sham, actor, cheat, informer, trickster, one given to hypocrisy, sophist, mountebank, adventurer, sharper, confidence man, malingerer, humbug, swindler, informer, knave, rascal, traitor, Judas, Uriah Heep, decoy, wolf in sheep's clothing, Pecksniff, actor, masquerader, dissimulator, attitudinizer, ass in lion's skin, bluenose*, four-flusher*, two-timer*, two-face*, God on wheels*, Holy Joe*, goody-goody*, Holy Willie*, bunko steerer*, crook*, spieler*, stool pigeon*, faker*; see also impostor.

hypocrite Usage Examples

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.
hypocrite Quotes

Patriotism is seen not onlyas the last refuge of the scoundrel but as the first bolt-hole of the hypocrite. See Johnson 444:8.

—Bragg, Melvyn Bragg, Baron

'You! hypocrite lecteur!ömonsemblable,ömonfre'  re!' See Baudelaire 64:53.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

Hypocrite lecteur,ömon semblable,ömon fre'  re! Hypocrite readerömy fellow manömy brother! See Eliot 306:55.

—Baudelaire, Charles

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

—Williams,TennesseeThomas Lanier

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson