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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
“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.
“Some of our friends like to say we should believe all women,” he said, before insisting that the “friends” he mentioned must be hypocrites because they don’t believe women who falsely claim vaccines cause autism.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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