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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
She had seen some of Watt's YouTube videos at the protests and described him as "a hypocrite".
“He’s not a hypocrite saying one thing and doing another. He lives what he believes.”
He said he knew some climate advocates would disagree and call him a hypocrite because of his carbon footprint, which he said he fully offsets with "legitimate" carbon credits.
She added: "Government has dishonoured every single Indian woman by allowing Taliban minister to exclude women journalists from presser. Shameful bunch of spineless hypocrites."
“My kids were like: ‘You hypocrite!’ ” says Scott, 58, who lives in Los Altos, Calif., and is now the co-founder of an executive education firm.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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