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Synonyms for hypocritical
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  1. hypocritical

    Synonyms:
    pharisaical, sanctimonious, smug, smooth, mealy, unctuous, mincing

    Antonyms:
    plain-spoken, candid, truthful, sincere, genuine, transparent

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  1. hypocriticaladjective

    professing feelings or virtues one does not have

    "hypocritical praise"

    Antonyms:
    sincere

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  1. hypocriticaladjective

    Synonyms:
    pharisaical, canting, sanctimonious

  2. hypocriticaladjective

    Synonyms:
    dissembling, insincere, false, hollow

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  1. hypocriticaladjective

    Synonyms:
    pharisaical, canting, dissembling, sanctimonious, insincere

    Antonyms:
    sincere, unfeigned, undissembling, ingenuous

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  1. List of paraphrases for "hypocritical":

    hypocrite, hypocrisy, sanctimonious, two-faced, disingenuous, pious, sham

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#2392false
#3880smooth
#7137lying
#15352fraudulent
#20014sham
#21506hypocrisy
#27285dishonest
#30218untrue
#32203pious
#32281faithless
#37389treacherous
#38412hypocritical
#40826unscrupulous
#41277smug
#44043hypocrite
#50824unfaithful
#55524deceitful
#60164disingenuous
#91170mealy
#103880sanctimonious
#108620mincing
#118674traitorous
#128190perfidious
#171371unctuous
#174612mendacious

How to use hypocritical in a sentence?

  1. Anne Dunsmore:

    I think prior to that and even during the French Laundry (incident), his staff reportedly was sitting there saying, ‘Don’t worry about it,’ and he was thinking, ‘I need to work about it,’ i think his very obvious default is to go to political messaging rather than policy planning. And this is he started to have problems because it has created inconsistent decisions, and hypocritical decisions, and very transparently poor decisions.

  2. Steve Rabinowitz:

    Yes, it will be another talking point for right-wing critics of Hillary's. But it will be no more than all their other hypocritical talking points on which they don't hold Republicans to the same standard.

  3. David Borenstein:

    Bush Sr. was a jerk, Quayle an idiot, Clinton was atrocious and disgusting, most of those who persecuted him were hypocritical, Gore is shallow and weak, Bradley is an idealist, Bush Jr. a fool, and all of the independent candidates act like they're on drugs.

  4. Jean Kerr:

    Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

  5. Blake Maday:

    The fact that students can fill the (Breslin Center) packed shoulder to shoulder for hours before the game, for the entirety of the game and be together for, you know, probably three hours at night with no social distancing, not even including all the outsiders being brought in to campus for the game, it's wildly hypocritical.


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