Hypocrite vs. Hypocrisy
Hypocritenoun
Someone who practices hypocrisy, who pretends to hold beliefs, or whose actions are not consistent with their claimed beliefs.
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.
Hypocritenoun
a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he does not hold
Hypocrite
Example: Raymond Farina
Hypocrisynoun
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.
Hypocrisynoun
The claim or pretense of having beliefs, standards, qualities, behaviours, virtues, motivations, etc. which one does not actually have.
Hypocrisynoun
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.
Hypocrisynoun
An instance of any or all of the above.
Hypocrisynoun
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.
Hypocrisynoun
an expression of agreement that is not supported by real conviction
Hypocrisynoun
insincerity by virtue of pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not really have
Hypocrisynoun
the practice of claiming to have higher standards or more noble beliefs than is the case
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.
