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单词 hypocrite
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hypocrite
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A hypocrite preaches one thing, and does another. You're a hypocrite if you criticize other people for wearing fur, but pull out your big mink jacket as soon as it gets cold.
The word hypocrite is rooted in the Greek word hypokrites, which means “stage actor, pretender, dissembler.” So think of a hypocrite as a person who pretends to be a certain way, but really acts and believes the total opposite. Hypocrites usually talk a big talk but fail to follow their own rules — like an outspoken vegetarian who secretly eats bacon.
WORD FAMILY
hypocrite: hypocrites
USAGE EXAMPLES
Hamilton was no apologist for Jefferson, whose politics were “tinctured with fanaticism,” and who was “a contemptible hypocrite.”
Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016)
“God doesn’t want me to be a hypocrite,” she said.
Wall Street Journal(Dec 25, 2016)
Resistance is for sore losers and hypocrites who would undermine democracy exactly as they accused the president-elect of wanting to do.
Washington Post(Dec 18, 2016)
n a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
dissembler, dissimulator, phoney, phony, pretender
charmer, smoothie, smoothy, sweet talker
someone with an assured and ingratiating manner
Tartufe, Tartuffe
a hypocrite who pretends to religious piety (after the protagonist in a play by Moliere)
whited sepulcher, whited sepulchre
a person who is inwardly evil but outwardly professes to be virtuous
beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
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