hypocrite

From Old French ypocrite (Modern French Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)), from Latin hypocrita, from Ancient Greek ὑποκριτής (hupokritḗs, “actor, hypocrite”), from ὑποκρίνομαι (hupokrínomai, “I answer, act, feign”). Displaced native Old English līċettere.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɪ.pə.kɹɪt/

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hypocrite (plural hypocrites)

1. Someone who practices hypocrisy, who pretends to hold beliefs, or whose actions are not consistent with their claimed beliefs. [from early 13th c.]

   Synonyms: flip-flopper, pretender; see also Thesaurus:deceiver

   • 1765, Catherine Jemmat, The Memoirs of Mrs. Catherine Jemmat, Daughter of the Late Admiral Yeo, of Plymouth. Written by Herself, 2nd edition, volume I, London: Printed for the author, at Charing-Cross, →OCLC, page 145:

     [S]he was one of your ſoft ſpoken, canting, whining hypocrites, who with a truly jeſuitical art, could wreſt evil out of the moſt inoffenſive thought, word, look or action; […]

• act the hypocrite
• hypocrite commit
• hypocrite plant

• two-faced
• double standard
• hypocritical

• The Origin of the Term Hypokritēs

• rheotypic

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /i.pɔ.kʁit/

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hypocrite (plural hypocrites)

1. hypocritical
   • 1857, Charles Baudelaire, “Au lecteur”, in Les Fleurs du mal [The Flowers of Evil], Paris: Poulet-Malassis et De Broise:

     Tu le connais, lecteur, ce monstre délicat, / — Hypocrite lecteur, — mon semblable, — mon frère !

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• hypocritement

hypocrite m or f by sense (plural hypocrites)

1. hypocrite

• (informal) faux-cul, faux cul, faux jeton

• “hypocrite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• chypriote, Chypriote