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n. A person given to hypocrisy.

n. 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.

n. One who assumes a false appearance; one who feigns to be what he is not, or to feel or believe what he does not actually feel or believe; especially, a false pretender to virtue or piety.

n. Synonyms Dissembler, Hypocrite (see dissembler); Pharisee, formalist, cheat.

n. 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

"The inherent contradiction in this line of thinking renders the term hypocrite too gentle."

cheat    beguiler    deceiver    trickster    slicker    cheater   

smoothy    whited sepulchre    smoothie    whited sepulcher    sweet talker    tartufe    charmer    Tartuffe   

pretender    dissembler    cheat    deceiver    Tartuffe    pecksniff    pharisee   

impostor    liar    scoundrel    villain    knave    traitor    swindler    charlatan    sycophant    tyrant