What is "hypocrite" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does hypocrite mean in English? Meaning of hypocrite definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "hypocrite" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "hypocrite": a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives

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  • Meaning: a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives
  • Synonyms: dissembler dissimulator hypocrite phoney phony pretender
  • Hyponyms: charmer smoothie smoothy sweet talker tartufe tartuffe whited sepulcher whited sepulchre
  • Hypernyms: beguiler cheat cheater deceiver slicker trickster
  • Adjective: Someone who practices hypocrisy, who pretends to hold beliefs, or whose actions are not consistent with their claimed beliefs. [from early 13th c.]
  • Synonyms:

    bigot, trickster, impostor, phony, crook, charlatan, cheat, faker, hook, fake, decoy, actor, mountebank, informer, pretender, malingerer, poser, quack, humbug, fraud, deceiver, swindler, con artist, dissimulator, playactor, smoothie, masquerader, sophist, pharisee, bluffer, backslider, dissembler, four-flusher, two-timer, casuist, attitudinizer, lip server, two-face, wolf in sheep's clothing,

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    hypocrite in English: hypocrite
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