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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who pretends, is deceitful |
| Synonyms: | Pharisee, actor, attitudinizer, backslider, bigot, bluffer, casuist, charlatan, cheat, con artist, crook, deceiver, decoy, dissembler, dissimulator, fake, faker, four-flusher, fraud, hook*, humbug, impostor, informer, lip server, malingerer, masquerader, mountebank, phony, playactor, poser, pretender, quack, smoothie, sophist, swindler, trickster, two-face, two-timer, wolf in sheep's clothing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tartuffe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hypocrite |
| Synonyms: | Pharisee, actor, attitudinizer, backslider, bigot, bluffer, casuist, charlatan, cheat, con artist, crook, deceiver, decoy, dissembler, dissimulator, fake*, faker, four-flusher, fraud*, hook*, humbug, impostor, informer, lip server, malingerer, masquerader, mountebank, pharisee, phony*, playactor, poser, pretender, quack, smoothie, sophist, swindler, trickster, two-face, two-timer, wolf in sheep's clothing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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