Synonyms for Hypocrisy

Synonyms for "hypocrisy" (104 found)

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Closest matches (21)

Strong matches (31)

Noun(5 words)

duplicity hypocriticality hypocriticalness insinceritylip service

empty gesturefacade fakeryfalse frontfalse pietyfalse showfalseheartedness falseness falsityfeigned belieffront furtiveness glibness goody-goodiness guile humbug hypocriticalness image indirection insidiousness

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insinceritylip servicelying mannerism mealymouthedness mendacity

Related words (52)

mere showmouthing mummery oilinessostentatious devotionpecksniffery perfidy pharisaicalness pharisaism pietism pietisticalness piety piousness pretense pretensionprunes and prismspublic imageput onput-onputting on airs

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Noun(5 words)

performative virtuepretence pretense shamvirtue signaling

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

10 entries

deception dishonesty dissembling falseness feigning hollowness insinceritymoral failingpretence pretense

More specific

7 entries

corporate hypocrisycultural hypocrisyinstitutional hypocrisymoral hypocrisypolitical hypocrisyreligious hypocrisysocial hypocrisy

Collocations

6 entries

corporate hypocrisymoral hypocrisyperceived hypocrisypolitical hypocrisyreligious hypocrisyvirtue signaling

Inflections

1 entries

hypocrisies

Derivations

2 entries

hypocrite hypocritical

Translations

5 translations across 5 languages.

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Galician

1 entries

dobre moral noun (applying criticism to others that one does not apply equally to oneself)

German

1 entries

Doppelmoral noun (applying criticism to others that one does not apply equally to oneself)

Hungarian

1 entries

képmutatás noun (applying criticism to others that one does not apply equally to oneself)

Russian

1 entries

ха́нжество noun (applying criticism to others that one does not apply equally to oneself)

Swedish

1 entries

dubbelmoral noun (applying criticism to others that one does not apply equally to oneself)

Sample sentences

14 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.

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We tend to associate politicians with hypocrisy.

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They dismissed his criticism as hypocrisy.

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What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. 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.

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Hypocrisy