What does HYPOCRITE mean?
Definitions for HYPOCRITE
ˈhɪp ə krɪthyp·ocrite
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Princeton's WordNet
hypocrite, dissembler, dissimulator, phony, phoney, pretendernoun
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
Wiktionary
hypocritenoun
Someone who practices hypocrisy, who pretends to hold beliefs, or whose actions are not consistent with their claimed beliefs.
Etymology: ypocrite, from hypocrita, from ὑποκριτής, from ὑποκρίνομαι
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
HYPOCRITEnoun
A dissembler in morality or religion.
Etymology: hypocrite, French; ὑϖοϰϱιτὴς.
He heartily prays some occasion may detain us longer: I dare swear he is no hypocrite, but prays from his heart. William Shakespeare.
A wise man hateth not the law; but he that is an hypocrite therein, is as a ship in a storm. Ecclus. xxxiii. 3.
Fair hypocrite, you seek to cheat in vain;
Your silence argues, you ask time to reign. Dryden.The making religion necessary to interest might increase hypocrisy; but if one in twenty should be brought to true piety, and nineteen be only hypocrites, the advantage would still be great. Jonathan Swift.
Beware, ye honest: the third circling glass
Suffices virtue: but may hypocrites,
Who slily speak one thing, another think,
Hateful as hell, still pleas’d unwarn’d drink on,
And through intemp’rance grow a while sincere. Phillips.
Wikipedia
hypocrite
Hypocrisy is the practice of engaging in the same behavior or activity for which one criticizes another or the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform. In moral psychology, it is the failure to follow one's own expressed moral rules and principles. According to British political philosopher David Runciman, "Other kinds of hypocritical deception include claims to knowledge that one lacks, claims to a consistency that one cannot sustain, claims to a loyalty that one does not possess, claims to an identity that one does not hold". American political journalist Michael Gerson says that political hypocrisy is "the conscious use of a mask to fool the public and gain political benefit".Hypocrisy has been a subject of folk wisdom and wisdom literature from the beginnings of human history. Increasingly, since the 1980s, it has also become central to studies in behavioral economics, cognitive science, cultural psychology, decision making, ethics, evolutionary psychology, moral psychology, political sociology, positive psychology, social psychology, and sociological social psychology.
Webster Dictionary
Hypocritenoun
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
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Hypocrite
hip′o-krit, n. one who practises hypocrisy.—adj. Hypocrit′ical, practising hypocrisy.—adv. Hypocrit′ically. [Fr.,—L.,—Gr. hypokritēs.]
The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz
HYPOCRITE
A horse dealer. From Grk. _hippos_, horse, and _kroteo_, to beat. One who beats you on a horse trade. Home is where the mortgage is. I Aim at a chorus-girl and you may hit a star.--_Stage-Door Secrets_. ICE A substance frequently associated with a tumble in winter, a tumbler in summer, and a skate the year around.
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The numerical value of HYPOCRITE in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
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The numerical value of HYPOCRITE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of HYPOCRITE in a Sentence
Let... others call me a hypocrite because I fired a gun in a moment of personal peril. I shall still be for strict gun control. But as long as authorities leave this society awash in drugs and guns, I will protect my family.
I feel like I can talk to him out here, and then I tell him a lot. I said,' I'm trying to do everything I was raising you to do. So I can't be a hypocrite. And I got to try to get it right because that's what I was trying to teach you to do.'.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't
If america must call itself-a in god we trust-nation as written on its money, then it must stop being -the hypocrite and hate monger that it manifests in other things. We love to shout- oh my god-for so many things which suddenly comes upon us, but still we live a life of hatred and contempt for our fellow man. This hypocrisy will destroy us all. God is not mocked!
Never value anything as profitable that compels you to break your promise, to lose your self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything that needs walls and curtains.
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- مداجٍ, منافق, مراءٍArabic
- hipòcritaCatalan, Valencian
- pokrytecCzech
- hyklerDanish
- HeuchlerGerman
- alakpatɔEwe
- υποκριτήςGreek
- hipokrituloEsperanto
- hipócritaSpanish
- منافقPersian
- tekopyhä, ulkokultainenFinnish
- hypocriteFrench
- पाखंडीHindi
- álszent, képmutatóHungarian
- ipocritaItalian
- 偽君子, 偽善者Japanese
- 위선자, 僞善者Korean
- hypocrita eiceLatin
- лицемер, лицемерка, дволичникMacedonian
- hyklerNorwegian
- hipokrytaPolish
- hipócritaPortuguese
- ipocrit, ipocrităRomanian
- ханжа, лицемерRussian
- dvoličnjakinja, dvoličnik, himbenik, licemerka, licemer, dvoličnjakSerbo-Croatian
- skrymtare, hycklareSwedish
- kabwelaSwahili
- కపటిTelugu
- ผู้หลอกลวงThai
- iki yüzlüTurkish
- منافقUrdu
- kẻ giả nhân giả nghĩa, kẻ đạo đức giảVietnamese
- 偽君子Chinese
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