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hypocrisy
[hi-pok-ruh-see] 
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hypocrisy
[hi-pok-ruh-see]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deceitfulness, pretense |
| Synonyms: | affectation, bad faith, bigotry, cant, casuistry, deceit, deception, dishonesty, display, dissembling, dissimulation, double-dealing, duplicity, false profession, falsity, fraud, glibness, imposture, insincerity, irreverence, lie, lip service, mockery, pharisaicalness, pharisaism, phoniness, pietism, quackery, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, speciousness, unctuousness |
| Antonyms: | forthrightness, honesty, righteousness, sincerity, truth |
| Main Entry: | deceit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | practice of misleading |
| Synonyms: | ambidexterity, ambidextrousness, artifice, cheating, chicane, chicanery, cozening, craft, craftiness, cunning, deceitfulness, deception, defrauding, dirty dealing, dirty pool, dishonesty, dissemblance, dissimulation, double-dealing, duplicity, entrapping, fraud, fraudulence, guile, hypocrisy, imposition, overreaching, pretense, slyness, smoke and mirrors, trapping, treachery, trickery, two-facedness, two-timing, underhandedness |
| Antonyms: | frankness, honesty, openness, truth, truthfulness, uprightness |
| Main Entry: | deception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misleading; being dishonest |
| Synonyms: | beguilement, betrayal, blarney, boondoggle, cheat, circumvention, cozenage, craftiness, cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, deceptiveness, defraudation, dirt, disinformation, dissimulation, double-dealing, dupery, duplicity, equivocation, falsehood, fast one, flimflam, fraud, fraudulence, guile, hokum, hypocrisy, imposition, insincerity, juggling, legerdemain, lying, mendacity, pretense, prevarication, snow job, sophism, treachery, treason, trickery, trickiness, trumpery, untruth |
| Antonyms: | frankness, honesty, honor, openness, trustworthiness, truth, truthfulness, uprightness |
| Main Entry: | double-dealing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | betrayal, cheating |
| Synonyms: | bad faith, chicane, chicanery, deceit, deception, dishonesty, duplicity, foul play, fourberie, fraud, hanky-panky, hypocrisy, mendacity, perfidy, sharp practice, treachery, trickery, two-timing |
| Antonyms: | forthrightness, honesty, truthfulness |
| Main Entry: | duplicity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deception |
| Synonyms: | Judas kiss, artifice, chicanery, cunning, deceit, dirty dealing, dirty pool, dirty trick, dirty work, dishonesty, dissemblance, dissimulation, double-dealing, dualism, duality, faithlessness, falsehood, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, one-upmanship, perfidiousness, perfidy, skullduggery, stab in back, treacherousness, treachery, two-facedness, twoness |
| Notes: | duplicity implies double-dealing while chicanery suggests trickery and wiliness |
| Antonyms: | forthrightness, honesty, trustworthiness |
| Main Entry: | falsity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dishonesty, deception |
| Synonyms: | canard, cheating, deceit, deceptiveness, disingenuousness, double-dealing, duplicity, erroneousness, error, faithlessness, fake, fallacy, falsehood, fib, fraud, fraudulence, hypocrisy, inaccuracy, infidelity, insincerity, lie, mendacity, misrepresentation, perfidiousness, perfidy, prevarication, sham, story, tale, treachery, uncandidness, unfaithfulness, unreality, untruth |
| Antonyms: | honesty, truth, truthfulness |
| Main Entry: | imposition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deception |
| Synonyms: | artifice, cheating, con, craftiness, dissimulation, fraud, hoax, hocus-pocus, hypocrisy, illusion, imposture, stratagem, trick, trickery |
| Antonyms: | forthrightness, honesty |
| Main Entry: | lip service |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | empty talk |
| Synonyms: | duplicity, empty talk, hollow words, hypocrisy, hypocritical respect, insincerity, jive, lie, lip devotion, lip homage, lip praise, lip reverence, lip worship, mouth honor, mouthing, sham, smooth talk, sweet talk, token agreement, tokenism, tongue in cheek, unctuousness |
| Main Entry: | pretension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | airs, snobbishness |
| Synonyms: | affectation, big talk, charade, conceit, disguise, fake*, false front, front, hypocrisy, ostentation, phony, pomposity, pretentiousness, put-on, self-importance, show, showboat, showiness, showoff, snobbery, splash*, vainglory, vanity |
| Antonyms: | honesty, humility |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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