Hypocrite vs. Hypocrisy

Someone who practices hypocrisy, who pretends to hold beliefs, or whose actions are not consistent with their claimed beliefs.

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.

Example: ‘The hypocrite's hope shall perish.’; ‘I dare swear he is no hypocrite, but prays from his heart.’;

a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he does not hold

Example: Raymond Farina

The contrivance of a false appearance of virtue or goodness, while concealing real character or inclinations, especially with respect to religious and moral beliefs; hence in general sense, dissimulation, pretence, sham.

The claim or pretense of having beliefs, standards, qualities, behaviours, virtues, motivations, etc. which one does not actually have.

The practice of engaging in the same behaviour or activity for which one criticises another; moral self-contradiction whereby the behavior of one or more people belies their own claimed or implied possession of certain beliefs, standards or virtues.

An instance of any or all of the above.

The act or practice of a hypocrite; a feigning to be what one is not, or to feel what one does not feel; a dissimulation, or a concealment of one's real character, disposition, or motives; especially, the assuming of false appearance of virtue or religion; a simulation of goodness.

Example: ‘Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.’; ‘Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.’;

an expression of agreement that is not supported by real conviction

insincerity by virtue of pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not really have

the practice of claiming to have higher standards or more noble beliefs than is the case

Example: ‘his target was the hypocrisy of suburban life’; ‘spokesmen unversed in the smoother hypocrisies of diplomacy’; ‘she was irritated to be accused of hypocrisy’;

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.