hypocrite

[ UK /hˈɪpəkɹˌɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈhɪpəˌkɹɪt/ ]
NOUN
  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
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How To Use hypocrite In A Sentence

  • To me he is false, a bluffer, a hypocrite, a sectarian, a coward and an opportunist.
  • June 22nd, 2009 3: 51 pm ET this gut is a liberal clown and acted like a republican and cheated on his wife but he is not responsible because he is a hypocrite democrat. Villaraigosa to make announcement on Situation Room
  • Religion cannot protect itself from religious hypocrites, including priests who sexually abuse teenagers and altar boys. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • The hypocrite is a good example for other people, a model of probity and decorum, at least until the truth comes out.
  • The temptation to ask for a Quarter Pounder with Cheese, Large Fries and a Diet Coke (hypocrite… moi?) was indeed very great.
  • One'friend' of the magazine called the unions hypocrites for failing to deliver on a salary rise. Times, Sunday Times
  • The teachers were viewed as informers, or at best cowards and hypocrites.
  • I knew it was a woman from the bungling, unmanlike way that pistol was laid in the dead hand; the only question I had to answer was _which_ woman -- Fifi, Lady Stavornell, or this wretched little hypocrite. Cleek, the Master Detective
  • He is the biggest hypocrite and loser around. The Sun
  • The alternative is to make intellectual life increasingly irrelevant to human affairs, to turn intellectuals into hypocrites, and to turn everyone else into anti-intellectuals.
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