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hypocrite
noun as in person who pretends, is deceitful
Strong matches
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
Weak matches
attitudinizer, con artist, lip server, two-face, wolf in sheep's clothing
Example Sentences
That shows that De León is “a hypocrite,” Soto-Martínez said.
In the spring, Fairshake dropped more than $10 million on ads that called Porter a fake, an actor and a hypocrite.
Ramses — or at least the edited version of him we see on the show — is a hypocrite, someone who boasts that he “doesn’t try to follow traditional expectations of what masculinity should look like” and yet gives his fiancée a hard time for making choices about her body that create minor inconveniences for him.
Floyd himself is a veteran of the Spanish-American War with a vaguely Louisiana accent; he has little patience for the rules of Jay’s home, especially when the lord of the manor is such an obvious hypocrite.
He similarly denounced Washington as an imperial partner of Israel and an enabler of its crimes, as well as a hypocrite in theoretically promoting respect for the rule of law, while dismissing or even threatening international courts and supporting crackdowns at American colleges and universities when their students protested Israeli policies.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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