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hypocrite
(encz) | hypocrite,pokrytec n: Zdeněk Brož |
Hypocrite
(gcide) | Hypocrite \Hyp"o*crite\, 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.
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The hypocrite's hope shall perish. --Job viii.
13.
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I dare swear he is no hypocrite, but prays from his
heart. --Shak.
Syn: Deceiver; pretender; cheat. See Dissembler.
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hypocrite
(wn) | hypocrite
n 1: 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 [syn: hypocrite, dissembler, dissimulator,
phony, phoney, pretender] |
hypocrite
(devil) | HYPOCRITE, n. One who, profession virtues that he does not respect
secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.
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hypocrites
(encz) | hypocrites,pokrytci n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
Hypocrite
(gcide) | Hypocrite \Hyp"o*crite\, 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.
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The hypocrite's hope shall perish. --Job viii.
13.
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I dare swear he is no hypocrite, but prays from his
heart. --Shak.
Syn: Deceiver; pretender; cheat. See Dissembler.
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Hypocritely
(gcide) | Hypocritely \Hyp"o*crite*ly\, adv.
Hypocritically. [R.] --Sylvester.
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