hypocrite

Definition for hypocrite

noun as in person who pretends, is deceitful

Strongest matches

bigot, charlatan, crook, impostor, phony, trickster

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actor, backslider, bluffer, casuist, cheat, deceiver, decoy, dissembler, dissimulator, fake, faker, four-flusher, fraud, humbug, informer, malingerer, masquerader, mountebank, pharisee, poser, pretender, quack, smoothie, sophist, swindler, two-timer

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attitudinizer, con artist, lip server, two-face, wolf in sheep's clothing

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The Texas town’s megachurch in “The Hunting Wives” provides spiritual cover for trigger-happy hypocrites.

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Souris observes that the song “. . .is a blues song, not because of any chord progression, but because Sinéad sees the world for what it is and laments its hypocrites.”

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“My hope is that I’m getting to bring one of the greatest hypocrites to life in a way that will both make people laugh and also make them recognize that archetype.”

From Los Angeles Times

But I’m in the news business, and I felt like a hypocrite, so I kept sneaking peeks.

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Before being sentenced, Hadi Matar stood and made a statement about freedom of speech in which he called Rushdie a hypocrite.

From Los Angeles Times

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