HYPOCRITE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives

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Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("hypocrite" is a kind of...):

beguiler; cheat; cheater; deceiver; slicker; trickster (someone who leads you to believe something that is not true)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hypocrite"):

charmer; smoothie; smoothy; sweet talker (someone with an assured and ingratiating manner)

Tartufe; Tartuffe (a hypocrite who pretends to religious piety (after the protagonist in a play by Moliere))

whited sepulcher; whited sepulchre (a person who is inwardly evil but outwardly professes to be virtuous)