Hypocrisy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.
  • n. An act or instance of such falseness.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. applying criticism to others that one does not apply equally to oneself; moral self-contradiction whereby the behavior of one or more people belies their own claimed or implied possession of certain beliefs, standards or virtues.
  • n. an instance of either of the above.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act or practice of a hypocrite; a feigning to be what one is not, or to feel what one does not feel; a dissimulation, or a concealment of one's real character, disposition, or motives; especially, the assuming of false appearance of virtue or religion; a simulation of goodness.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Dissimulation of one's real character or belief; especially, a false assumption of piety or virtue; a feigning to be better than one is; the action or character of a hypocrite.
  • n. Synonyms Pretense, cant, formalism, sanctimoniousness, Pharisaism. See dissemble, dissembler, and deceit.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. insincerity by virtue of pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not really have
  • n. an expression of agreement that is not supported by real conviction
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    Words with the same meaning
    deceit    dissembling    tartufferie    tartuffism    cant    Phariseeism    pharisaism    snivel    sanctimony   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    falsehood    treachery    cowardice    dishonesty    avarice    wickedness    vanity    arrogance    duplicity    stupidity