Definitions for: Hypocrite


[n] a person who professes beliefs and opinions that they do not hold



Webster (1913) Definition: Hyp"o*crite, n. [F., fr. L. hypocrita, Gr. ? one who
plays a part on the stage, a dissembler, feigner. See
Hypocrisy.]
One who plays a part; especially, one who, for the purpose of
winning approbation of favor, puts on a fair outside seeming;
one who feigns to be other and better than he is; a false
pretender to virtue or piety; one who simulates virtue or
piety.

The hypocrite's hope shall perish. --Job viii.
13.

I dare swear he is no hypocrite, but prays from his
heart. --Shak.

Syn: Deceiver; pretender; cheat. See Dissembler.

Synonyms: dissembler, phoney, phony, pretender

See Also: beguiler, charmer, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, smoothie, smoothy, sweet talker, Tartufe, Tartuffe, trickster, whited sepulcher, whited sepulchre

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