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.
Fraudulent; having a misleading appearance.
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Examples for "hypocrite "
Examples for "hypocrite "
1 And for those that attend the hypocrite , in general they are these.
2 But he made himself a hypocrite ; and that he found much easier.
3 What a shameless hypocrite ! I had to admit, they made a point.
4 I also played the hypocrite , and frequented the conferences of Saint Lazarus.
5 The lady on this occasion acted finely the part of a hypocrite .
1 Prussia demanded the expulsion of the pretender ; to which Austria said no.
2 About the time of the Paris pretender in the kingdom of Naples.
3 The ideal of China is sincerity but an actor is a pretender .
4 The pretender braced himself for the scrutiny the eyes made of him.
5 You show more determination than I had thought possible for a pretender .
1 I was a close and resolute dissembler - in this one case at least.
2 Clever dissembler that he was, he could not prevent an involuntary start.
3 He was then in Clarendon's eyes preeminently a dissembler - ' the greatest dissembler living'.
4 Perhaps Stoppard's comparisons with that great dissembler Wilde are more apt than ever.
5 You have not been weak; you have been abused by a devilish dissembler .
1 Bajee Rao, practised dissimulator as he was, flushed at this unexpected accusation.
2 He is a great dissimulator , a spreader abroad of clever fantasies and lies.
3 This is, perhaps unconsciously, partly Ned's doing; at fifteen he wasalready a master dissimulator .
4 Angelica: (sighing) What violence is necessary to turn me into a dissimulator with all the world.
5 Tostig, with all his vices, was a poor dissimulator , and his sullen spirit betrayed itself when he took leave of his host.
1 He thought there was something phoney in the feel of the notes.
2 The phoney war is over; now the battle for Eircom truly begins.
3 The annual phoney war that kicks off awards season has properly begun.
4 Websites are now used and operated anonymously or under a phoney alias.
5 But the enthusiasm was short-lived and perceived as phoney at the time.
6 The whiff of rebellion had blown away, the phoney war was undetectable.
7 He told Mrs. Courtwright how he could tell it was a phoney .
8 The phoney potted palms were considering growing roots, out of sheer boredom.
9 I'm a phoney and a fake, but this isn't phoney or fake.
10 Everybody in Poona is ' phoney . ' Everything is ' phoney . ' Everything they do is ' phoney . '
11 A real game in a competition which often ends with a phoney war.
12 I've a list of almost every phoney plate it's ever used.
13 You led me out yesterday for Gutman with that phoney call for help.
14 While it was happening, she could actually forget how phoney it all was.
15 Too phoney , too forced, and the risk of getting it wrong is huge.
16 This exchange sums up the frustration in the media about the phoney promises.
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