What does hypocritical mean?
Definitions for hypocritical
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Princeton's WordNet
hypocriticaladjective
professing feelings or virtues one does not have
"hypocritical praise"
Wiktionary
hypocriticaladjective
Characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite.
Etymology: From hypocritic + -al, from ὑποκριτικός, from ὑποκριτής, from ὑποκρίνομαι, from ὑπό + κρίνω.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Hypocritical, Hypocritickadjective
Dissembling; insincere; appearing differently from the reality.
Etymology: from hypocrite.
Now you are confessing your enormities; I know it by that hypocritical, down-cast look. John Dryden, Spanish Fryar.
Whatever virtues may appear in him, they will be esteemed an hypocritical imposture on the world; and in his retired pleasures, he will be presumed a libertine. John Rogers, Sermons.
Let others skrew their hypocritick face. Jonathan Swift.
Wikipedia
hypocritical
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.
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hypocritical
Hypocritical refers to the behavior of a person who pretends to have beliefs, virtues, feelings, qualities, or standards that they do not actually possess, especially a person whose actions contradict their stated beliefs. It often involves the act of criticizing others for behaviors that one engages in as well.
Webster Dictionary
Hypocriticaladjective
of or pertaining to a hypocrite, or to hypocrisy; as, a hypocriticalperson; a hypocritical look; a hypocritical action
Etymology: [Gr. : cf. F. hypocritique.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of hypocritical in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of hypocritical in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of hypocritical in a Sentence
I asked for Mouzalas to resign on his own, to protect the government and leave, the effort to weaken the minister, who struggles every day to handle the refugee crisis, is irresponsible and hypocritical, particularly ahead of the upcoming EU leaders summit.
We want the game back where it belongs, this was a knee-jerk, hypocritical and illegal reaction to misinformation about Georgia’s new voting law which includes voter ID.
It’ll be interesting to see if voters turn against the Republican Party, seeing them as hypocritical.
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
It's a hypocritical double standard.
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- skynheiligAfrikaans
- منافقArabic
- hipòcritaCatalan, Valencian
- pokryteckýCzech
- heuchlerischGerman
- hipokritaEsperanto
- mochoSpanish
- tekopyhäFinnish
- hypocriteFrench
- dà-aodannachScottish Gaelic
- צבועHebrew
- ipocritaItalian
- ngutukau, areroruaMāori
- hypocriet, schijnheiligDutch
- skinnhellig, hyklete, tilgjortNorwegian
- hipócritaPortuguese
- ipocritRomanian
- ханжеский, лицемерныйRussian
- skenhelig, hycklandeSwedish
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