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hypocritical

(hɪpəkrɪtɪkəl)
adjective
If you accuse someone of being hypocritical, you mean that they pretend to have qualities, beliefs, or feelings that they do not really have.
[disapproval]
It would be hypocritical to say I travel at 70mph simply because that is the law.
If someone is being hypocritical then it is fair to expose that.
Synonyms: insincere, false, fraudulent, hollow More Synonyms of hypocritical

Examples of 'hypocritical' in a sentence
hypocritical

This will look deeply hypocritical and wasteful to the taxpayers who are picking up the tab.
The Sun (2016)
That would be deeply hypocritical.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Raging against men who try to protect their privacy in such situations seems a touch hypocritical.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
But that seems pretty hypocritical to me.
Christianity Today (2000)
It feels a bit hypocritical and pretty outrageous.
The Sun (2016)
Many other organisations appear deeply hypocritical.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
He has become part of the establishment that he attacks, which is deeply hypocritical.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
It is hypocritical, to say the least.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
I just found it a bit hypocritical.
The Sun (2014)
That seems hypocritical to me.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Ant said: 'It is hypocritical really.
The Sun (2011)
The judge added: 'I hope your realise that what you did was deeply hypocritical.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
He said: 'It looks a bit hypocritical to me.
The Sun (2014)
My wife and I thought long and hard before deciding that it would be a bit hypocritical to marry in church.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
You might say that's a bit hypocritical, coming from a woman in pants who propels herself five metres into the air on a bendy fibreglass stick.
The Sun (2016)

In other languages
hypocritical

British English: hypocritical ADJECTIVE
If you accuse someone of being hypocritical, you mean that they pretend to have qualities, beliefs, or feelings that they do not really have.
It would be hypocritical to say I travel at 70mph simply because that is the law.
  • American English: hypocritical
  • Brazilian Portuguese: hipócrita
  • Chinese: 虚伪的
  • European Spanish: hipócrita
  • French: hypocrite
  • German: heuchlerisch
  • Italian: ipocrita
  • Japanese: 偽善的な
  • Korean: 위선적인
  • European Portuguese: hipócrita
  • Latin American Spanish: hipócrita

Chinese translation of 'hypocritical'

hypocritical

(hɪpəˈkrɪtɪkl)

adj

  1. [person, behaviour] 虚(虛)伪(偽)的 (xūwěi de)
(adjective) 
It seems hypocritical to pay someone to do the dirty work for me.
Synonyms
insincere
He found himself surrounded by insincere flattery.
false
She was a false friend, envious of her lifestyle and her success.
fraudulent
fraudulent claims about being a nurse
hollow
His hollow laugh had no mirth in it.
deceptive
Her worst fault is a strongly deceptive streak.
spurious
a spurious framework for analysis
two-faced
He had been devious and two-faced.
deceitful
The ambassador called the report deceitful and misleading.
sanctimonious
He writes smug, sanctimonious rubbish.
specious
duplicitous
dissembling
canting
Janus-faced
pharisaical
phoney or phony (informal)

Additional synonyms

in the sense of canting
Synonyms
hypocritical,
two-faced,
sanctimonious,
insincere,
Janus-faced
in the sense of deceitful
Definition
full of deceit
The ambassador called the report deceitful and misleading.
Synonyms
dishonest,
false,
deceiving,
fraudulent,
treacherous,
deceptive,
hypocritical,
counterfeit,
crafty,
sneaky,
illusory,
two-faced,
disingenuous,
untrustworthy,
underhand,
insincere,
double-dealing,
duplicitous,
fallacious,
guileful,
knavish (archaic)
in the sense of deceptive
Her worst fault is a strongly deceptive streak.
Synonyms
dishonest,
deceiving,
fraudulent,
treacherous,
hypocritical,
crafty,
sneaky,
two-faced,
disingenuous,
deceitful,
untrustworthy,
underhand,
insincere,
duplicitous,
guileful

Synonyms of 'hypocritical'

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