(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
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
"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
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