hypocrite

Old French ypocrite (Modern French hypocrite), from Ecclesiastical Latin hypocrita, from Ancient Greek ὑποκριτής (hupokritḗs, “actor, hypocrite”), from ὑποκρίνομαι (hupokrínomai, “I answer, act, feign”).

• 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.]
   • 1765, Catherine Jemmat, The Memoirs of Mrs. Catherine Jemmat, Daughter of the Late Admiral Yeo, of Plymouth. Written by Herself, volume I, 2nd edition, London: Printed for the author, at Charing-Cross, OCLC 316667080, 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; […]

• flip-flopper

• two-faced
• double standard
• hypocritical

• rheotypic

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /i.pɔ.kʁit/

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hypocrite (plural hypocrites)

1. hypocritical

• hypocritement

hypocrite m or f (plural hypocrites)

1. hypocrite.

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

• “hypocrite” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• chypriote, Chypriote