Definition of Hypocrite

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Hypocrite

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.

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Hypocrite Quotations

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
William Blake

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
Charles Spurgeon

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
Tennessee Williams

Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!
Charles Baudelaire

I think people are born bisexual and the make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.
Megan Fox

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
Hannah Arendt

Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.
Billy Sunday

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
Adlai E. Stevenson

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
William Hazlitt

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
William Hazlitt

Hypocrite Translations

hypocrite in Dutch is veinzer, huichelaar, hypocriet
hypocrite in French is pharisien
hypocrite in German is Heuchler
hypocrite in Hungarian is hipokrita
hypocrite in Italian is ipocrita
hypocrite in Latin is hypocrita
hypocrite in Norwegian is hykler
hypocrite in Swedish is hycklare, skrymtare

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