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Synonyms for hypocritical
hyp·o·crit·i·cal
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
hypocritical
Synonyms:
deceitful, dishonest, disingenuous, faithless, false, fraudulent, lying, mendacious, perfidious, traitorous, treacherous, unfaithful, unscrupulous, untrueAntonyms:
candid, equitable, fair, faithful, frank, genuine, good, honest, honorable, ingenuous, just, sincere, straightforward, true, trustworthy, trusty, upright
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
hypocritical
Synonyms:
pharisaical, sanctimonious, smug, smooth, mealy, unctuous, mincingAntonyms:
plain-spoken, candid, truthful, sincere, genuine, transparent
Princeton's WordNet
hypocriticaladjective
professing feelings or virtues one does not have
"hypocritical praise"
Antonyms:
sincere
Dictionary of English Synonymes
hypocriticaladjective
Synonyms:
pharisaical, canting, sanctimonioushypocriticaladjective
Synonyms:
dissembling, insincere, false, hollow
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
hypocriticaladjective
Synonyms:
pharisaical, canting, dissembling, sanctimonious, insincereAntonyms:
sincere, unfeigned, undissembling, ingenuous
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "hypocritical":
hypocrite, hypocrisy, sanctimonious, two-faced, disingenuous, pious, sham
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#2392 | false | |
#3880 | smooth | |
#7137 | lying | |
#15352 | fraudulent | |
#20014 | sham | |
#21506 | hypocrisy | |
#27285 | dishonest | |
#30218 | untrue | |
#32203 | pious | |
#32281 | faithless | |
#37389 | treacherous | |
#38412 | hypocritical | |
#40826 | unscrupulous | |
#41277 | smug | |
#44043 | hypocrite | |
#50824 | unfaithful | |
#55524 | deceitful | |
#60164 | disingenuous | |
#91170 | mealy | |
#103880 | sanctimonious | |
#108620 | mincing | |
#118674 | traitorous | |
#128190 | perfidious | |
#171371 | unctuous | |
#174612 | mendacious |
How to use hypocritical in a sentence?
We find it interesting and hypocritical that( Barr) would invite us to this event commemorating a hate crime law named after our son and Mr. Byrd, while at the same time asking the Supreme Court to allow the legalized firing of transgender employees.
On the surface, to the guy in the street, it looks very hypocritical with this organization giving a podium to that regime, what I sense now is a very large number of U.N. members, and not only European members, really feel that this is highlighting some fundamental dysfunctions and some fundamental anachronisms in how the U.N. works and when hopefully the immediate drama of the war is over, we’re going to hear a lot of talk about U.N. reform, although I don't know what that will really deliver at the end of the day.
Is there an irony here because he spoke incessantly about the income gap and is now earning from those same people he criticized? Yes it is, should we expect it? Yes, we should because all former presidents do this. He went on the attack against Wall Street and now he’s being fed by those same people he called ‘fat cats’. It’s more hypocritical than ironic.
Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.
It’s very hypocritical in the sense that Hollywood likes to position itself as a bastion of liberalism but has completely erased Tibetans from its films and from its representation.
Translations for hypocritical
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- skynheiligAfrikaans
- منافقArabic
- hipòcritaCatalan, Valencian
- pokryteckýCzech
- heuchlerischGerman
- hipokritaEsperanto
- mochoSpanish
- tekopyhäFinnish
- hypocriteFrench
- dà-aodannachScottish Gaelic
- צבועHebrew
- ipocritaItalian
- ngutukau, areroruaMāori
- hypocriet, schijnheiligDutch
- skinnhellig, hyklete, tilgjortNorwegian
- hipócritaPortuguese
- ipocritRomanian
- ханжеский, лицемерныйRussian
- skenhelig, hycklandeSwedish
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