英语词汇“hypocrite”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

hypocrite

/ˈhɪpəkrɪt

noun

A hypocritical person: the story tells of respectable Ben who turns out to be a cheat and a hypocrite...

Known hypocrites and liars may, of course, tell the truth about a particular incident.
But Zeno would be easy to read were he merely reliably unreliable: he would be a hypocrite and a fool.
He is a Pharisee exposed, the hypocrite who tells his patients how virtuous it is to be stoical.

Synonyms

sanctimonious person, pietist, whited sepulchre, plaster saint, humbug, pretender, deceiver, dissembler, impostor

informal phoney, Holy Willie

British informal creeping Jesus

North American informal bluenose

rare Pharisee, Tartuffe, Pecksniff, canter

Middle English: from Old French ypocrite, via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek hupokritēs 'actor', from hupokrinesthai (see hypocrisy).

单词	hypocrite
释义	hypocrite /ˈhɪpəkrɪt / noun A hypocritical person: the story tells of respectable Ben who turns out to be a cheat and a hypocrite... Known hypocrites and liars may, of course, tell the truth about a particular incident. But Zeno would be easy to read were he merely reliably unreliable: he would be a hypocrite and a fool. He is a Pharisee exposed, the hypocrite who tells his patients how virtuous it is to be stoical. Synonyms sanctimonious person, pietist, whited sepulchre, plaster saint, humbug, pretender, deceiver, dissembler, impostor informal phoney, Holy Willie British informal creeping Jesus North American informal bluenose rare Pharisee, Tartuffe, Pecksniff, canter Origin Middle English: from Old French ypocrite, via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek hupokritēs 'actor', from hupokrinesthai (see hypocrisy).
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