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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 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.
The Texas town’s megachurch in “The Hunting Wives” provides spiritual cover for trigger-happy hypocrites.
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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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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