What is another word for hypocritical?
Synonyms for hypocritical
hyp·o·crit·i·cal
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
hypocritical
Synonyms:
deceitful, dishonest, disingenuous, faithless, false, fraudulent, lying, mendacious, perfidious, traitorous, treacherous, unfaithful, unscrupulous, untrueAntonyms:
candid, equitable, fair, faithful, frank, genuine, good, honest, honorable, ingenuous, just, sincere, straightforward, true, trustworthy, trusty, upright
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
hypocritical
Synonyms:
pharisaical, sanctimonious, smug, smooth, mealy, unctuous, mincingAntonyms:
plain-spoken, candid, truthful, sincere, genuine, transparent
Princeton's WordNet
hypocriticaladjective
professing feelings or virtues one does not have
"hypocritical praise"
Antonyms:
sincere
Dictionary of English Synonymes
hypocriticaladjective
Synonyms:
pharisaical, canting, sanctimonioushypocriticaladjective
Synonyms:
dissembling, insincere, false, hollow
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
hypocriticaladjective
Synonyms:
pharisaical, canting, dissembling, sanctimonious, insincereAntonyms:
sincere, unfeigned, undissembling, ingenuous
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "hypocritical":
hypocrite, hypocrisy, sanctimonious, two-faced, disingenuous, pious, sham
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#2392 | false | |
#3880 | smooth | |
#7137 | lying | |
#15352 | fraudulent | |
#20014 | sham | |
#21506 | hypocrisy | |
#27285 | dishonest | |
#30218 | untrue | |
#32203 | pious | |
#32281 | faithless | |
#37389 | treacherous | |
#38412 | hypocritical | |
#40826 | unscrupulous | |
#41277 | smug | |
#44043 | hypocrite | |
#50824 | unfaithful | |
#55524 | deceitful | |
#60164 | disingenuous | |
#91170 | mealy | |
#103880 | sanctimonious | |
#108620 | mincing | |
#118674 | traitorous | |
#128190 | perfidious | |
#171371 | unctuous | |
#174612 | mendacious |
How to use hypocritical in a sentence?
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.
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.
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.
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
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.
Translations for hypocritical
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- skynheiligAfrikaans
- منافقArabic
- hipòcritaCatalan, Valencian
- pokryteckýCzech
- heuchlerischGerman
- hipokritaEsperanto
- mochoSpanish
- tekopyhäFinnish
- hypocriteFrench
- dà-aodannachScottish Gaelic
- צבועHebrew
- ipocritaItalian
- ngutukau, areroruaMāori
- hypocriet, schijnheiligDutch
- skinnhellig, hyklete, tilgjortNorwegian
- hipócritaPortuguese
- ipocritRomanian
- ханжеский, лицемерныйRussian
- skenhelig, hycklandeSwedish
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