Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
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Hypocritical
//hɪpəˈkɹɪtɪkəl//
Synonyms for "hypocritical" (95 found)
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Closest matches (19)
Strong matches (29)
Related words (47)
Related word relations
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Synonyms
1 entriesderived
5 entriesetymologically related_to
2 entriesrelated to
2 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
55 translations across 37 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- skynheilig adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
Albanian
1 entries- shtiracak adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
Armenian
2 entries- երեսպաշտ adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
- երկերեսանի adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
Belarusian
1 entries- крываду́шны adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
Bulgarian
2 entries- двуличен adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
- лицемерен adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
Catalan
1 entries- hipòcrita adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 偽善 /伪善 adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 假惺惺 adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
- 偽善 /伪善 adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
- 虛偽 /虚伪 adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
Czech
1 entries- pokrytecký adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
Dutch
2 entries- hypocriet adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
- schijnheilig adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
Esperanto
1 entries- hipokrita adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
Finnish
2 entries- tekopyhä adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
- ulkokultainen adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
French
1 entries- hypocrite adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
Galician
1 entries- hipócrita adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
German
2 entries- gleisnerisch adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
- heuchlerisch adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌻𐌹𐌿𐍄𐍃 adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
Hebrew
1 entries- צבוע adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
Hungarian
2 entries- képmutató adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
- álszent adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
Icelandic
1 entries- skinheilagur adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
Indonesian
1 entries- munafik adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
Interlingua
1 entries- hypocrita adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
Italian
1 entries- ipocrita adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
Korean
2 entries- 위선적 adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
- 이중적 adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
Māori
2 entries- arerorua adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
- ngutukau adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
Norwegian
3 entries- hyklete adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
- skinnhellig adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
- tilgjort adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- heichlich adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
Polish
1 entries- obłudny adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
Portuguese
1 entries- hipócrita adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
Romanian
1 entries- ipocrit adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
Russian
3 entries- двули́чный adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
- лицеме́рный adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
- ха́нжеский adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- dà-aodannach adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
Slovak
1 entries- pokrytecký adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
Spanish
2 entries- hipócrita adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
- mocho adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
Swedish
2 entries- hycklande adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
- skenhelig adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
Turkish
1 entries- ikiyüzlü adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
Ukrainian
2 entries- криводу́шний adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
- лицемі́рний adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
Yiddish
2 entries- היפּאָקריטיש adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
- צבֿועקיש adj (characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
Tom certainly is hypocritical.
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I have never known someone as hypocritical as you.
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Tom is hypocritical.
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