Hypocrite

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: hyp=o=crite

CIDE DICTIONARY

Hypocrite, 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.  [1913 Webster]
"The hypocrite's hope shall perish."  [1913 Webster]
"I dare swear he is no hypocrite, but prays from his heart."

Syn. -- Deceiver; pretender; cheat. See Dissembler.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Hypocrite, n. a person given to hypocrisy.

Derivative

hypocritical adj. hypocritically adv.

Etymology

ME f. OF ypocrite f. eccl.L f. Gk hupokrites actor (as HYPOCRISY)

DEVIL DICTIONARY

Hypocrite

n. One who, profession virtues that he does not respect secures the advantage of seeming to be what he depises.

THESAURUS

Hypocrite

Holy Willie, Joseph Surface, Mawworm, Pecksniff, Pharisee, Tartuffe, actor, affecter, ape, attitudinizer, bluffer, canter, canting hypocrite, charlatan, con man, confidence man, conformist, copier, copycat, copyist, counterfeiter, cuckoo, deceiver, dissembler, dissimulator, double-dealer, echo, echoer, echoist, fair-weather friend, faker, false friend, flimflam man, flimflammer, forger, formalist, fraud, humbug, imitator, impersonator, imposter, impostor, liar, lip server, lip worshiper, masquerader, mealymouth, mime, mimer, mimic, mimicker, mocker, mockingbird, monkey, mountebank, parrot, pharisee, phony, pietist, pious fraud, plagiarist, poll-parrot, polly, polly-parrot, poser, poseur, pretender, quack, ranter, religionist, religious hypocrite, sanctimonious fraud, sham, sheep, simulator, sniveler, snuffler, spiritual humbug, summer soldier, whited sepulcher

ROGET THESAURUS

Hypocrite

Impiety

N impiety, sin, irreverence, profaneness, profanity, profanation, blasphemy, desecration, sacrilege, scoffing, hypocrisy, pietism, cant, pious fraud, lip devotion, lip service, lip reverence, misdevotion, formalism, austerity, sanctimony, sanctimoniousness, pharisaism, precisianism, sabbatism, sabbatarianism, odium theologicum, sacerdotalism, bigotry blue laws, hardening, backsliding, declension, perversion, reprobation, sinner, scoffer, blasphemer, sacrilegist, sabbath breaker, worldling, hypocrite, Tartufe, Mawworm, bigot, saint, Pharisee, sabbatarian, formalist, methodist, puritan, pietist, precisian, religionist, devotee, ranter, fanatic, juramentado, the wicked, the evil, the unjust, the reprobate, sons of men, sons of Belial, the wicked one, children of darkness, impious, irreligious, desecrating, profane, irreverent, sacrilegious, blasphemous, un-hallowed, un-sanctified, un-regenerate, hardened, perverted, reprobate, hypocritical, canting, pietistical, sanctimonious, unctuous, pharisaical, overrighteous, righteous over much, bigoted, fanatical, priest-ridden, under the mask of religion, under the cloak of religion, under the pretense of religion, under the form of religion, under the guise of religion, giovane santo diavolo vecchio.

Deceiver

N deceiver &c (deceive), dissembler, hypocrite, sophist, Pharisee, Jesuit, Mawworm, Pecksniff, Joseph Surface, Tartufe, Janus, serpent, snake in the grass, cockatrice, Judas, wolf in sheep's clothing, jilt, shuffler, stool pigeon, liar &c (lie), story-teller, perjurer, false witness, menteur a triple etage, Scapin, bunko steerer, carpetbagger, capper, faker, fraud, four flusher, horse coper, ringer, spieler, straw bidder, imposter, pretender, soi-disant, humbug, adventurer, Cagliostro, Fernam Mendez Pinto, ass in lion's skin, actor, quack, charlatan, mountebank, saltimbanco, saltimbanque, empiric, quacksalver, medicaster, Rosicrucian, gypsy, man of straw, conjuror, juggler, trickster, prestidigitator, jockey, crimp, decoy, decoy duck, rogue, knave, cheat, swindler, jobber, saint abroad and a devil at home.