Antonyms for hypocrisy
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : hi-pok-ruh-see |
| Phonetic Transcription : hɪˈpɒk rə si |
Definition of hypocrisy
Origin :- c.1200, ipocrisie, from Old French ypocrisie, from Late Latin hypocrisis, from Greek hypokrisis "acting on the stage, pretense," from hypokrinesthai "play a part, pretend," also "answer," from hypo- "under" (see sub-) + middle voice of krinein "to sift, decide" (see crisis). The sense evolution in Attic Greek is from "separate gradually" to "answer" to "answer a fellow actor on stage" to "play a part." The h- was restored in English 16c.
- Hypocrisy is the art of affecting qualities for the purpose of pretending to an undeserved virtue. Because individuals and institutions and societies most often live down to the suspicions about them, hypocrisy and its accompanying equivocations underpin the conduct of life. Imagine how frightful truth unvarnished would be. [Benjamin F. Martin, "France in 1938," 2005]
- noun deceitfulness, pretense
- His eyes, round and full and steady, taxed her with falsehood, with hypocrisy.
- Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair
- I will not make it a hypocrisy to say, 'Lead us not into temptation.'
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- What kin' o' a usefulness can that be that has hypocrisy for its fundation?
- Extract from : « Salted With Fire » by George MacDonald
- But your hypocrisy and your mummery shall serve you to little purpose.
- Extract from : « Imogen » by William Godwin
- The world is a miserable, hollow, deceitful shell of vanity and hypocrisy.
- Extract from : « Beauty and The Beast, and Tales From Home » by Bayard Taylor
- Formalist and Hypocrisy choose the easy ways, and are heard of no more.
- Extract from : « Bunyan » by James Anthony Froude
- That there could be any need for hypocrisy never occurred to him.
- Extract from : « A Spirit in Prison » by Robert Hichens
- "I have been busy," he began, and then stopped with a sense of hypocrisy.
- Extract from : « The Christian » by Hall Caine
- To send it by post, pretending to be ill again, would be hypocrisy he could not support.
- Extract from : « The Manxman » by Hall Caine
- In fact, your hypocrisy was so consummate that I never suspected it.
- Extract from : « Scaramouche » by Rafael Sabatini
Synonyms for hypocrisy
- affectation
- bad faith
- bigotry
- cant
- casuistry
- deceit
- deception
- dishonesty
- display
- dissembling
- dissimulation
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- false profession
- falsity
- fraud
- glibness
- imposture
- insincerity
- irreverence
- lie
- lip service
- mockery
- pharisaicalness
- pharisaism
- phoniness
- pietism
- quackery
- sanctimoniousness
- sanctimony
- speciousness
- unctuousness
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