hypocrite

Definition of hypocrite in English English dictionary: Someone who practices hypocrisy, who pretends to hold beliefs, or whose actions are not consistent with their claimed beliefs; one who makes false professions of his views or beliefs; a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he does not hold; Someone who practises hypocrisy; disapproval If you accuse someone of being a hypocrite, you mean that they pretend to have qualities, beliefs, or feelings that they do not really have. someone who pretends to have certain beliefs or opinions that they do not really have - used to show disapproval; {i} insincere person, sanctimonious person; one who acts a false part or makes false professions; "One who, professing virtues that he does not respect secures the advantage of seeming to be what he depises" [DD] Among Christians, perhaps most evident in Fundies preaching while trespassing in Atheist chatrooms; 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; "a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue or religion"; n a person who pretends to be what she or he is not; who pretends to be better than she or he is, or to be pious, virtuous, etc without really being so -- Webster; Ajaawan
hypocrit: {n} a dissembler, a deceitful person
hypocritically: {a} without due sincerity, falsely
A hypocrite: Mawworm
Hypocritically: hypocritely
be a hypocrite: {f} be an insincere person, be a sanctimonious person
hypocrites: actor lit "answerer"
hypocrites: (Greek for "One who plays a part): The classical Athenian word for an actor Not to be confused with Hippocrates, the physician who founded the hippocratic oath
hypocrites: plural of hypocrite
hypocrites: Worse than atheists
hypocritically: in a hypocritical manner
hypocritically: in a hypocritical manner; "he behaved hypocritically by praying piously when people were watching"
hypocritically: insincerely, in a duplicitous manner, falsely
hypocritically: in a hypocritical manner; "he behaved hypocritically by praying piously when people were watching

hypocrite

Hyphenation

hyp·o·crite

Turkish pronunciation

hîpıkrît

Synonyms

actor, attitudinizer, backslider, bigot, bluffer, casuist, charlatan, cheat, con artist, crook, deceiver, decoy, dissembler, dissimulator, fake

Pronunciation

/ˈhəpəˌkrət/ /ˈhɪpəˌkrɪt/

Etymology

() Old French ypocrite Ecclesiastical Latin hypocrita Ancient Greek ὑποκριτής (hupokritēs, “actor, hypocrite”) ὑποκρίνομαι (hupokrinomai, “I answer, act, feign”)