Antonyms for hypocritical
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : hip-uh-krit-i-kuh l |
Phonetic Transcription : ˌhɪp əˈkrɪt ɪ kəl |
Definition of hypocritical
Origin :- 1540s (implied in hypocritically), from hypocritic, which was used in the same sense, + -al (1). Middle English used simple hypocrite as the adjective (c.1400) as well as the noun.
- adj deceitful, pretending
- "Don't be hypocritical, Judge," said the General reprovingly.
- Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
- Sympathy in him there was none, and he could not make a hypocritical show of any.
- Extract from : « Cleo The Magnificent » by Louis Zangwill
- She shall not come between me and happiness with her soft and hypocritical ways!
- Extract from : « The Elm Tree Tales » by F. Irene Burge Smith
- He grew cunning and hypocritical, and could do nothing that was not false in reality or appearance.
- Extract from : « The Christian » by Hall Caine
- "I am your guest, sir," said he, with a most hypocritical air of deference and courtesy.
- Extract from : « Confessions Of Con Cregan » by Charles James Lever
- On one was a satire on the hypocritical rapacity of perfidious Albion.
- Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 » by Various
- She was neither so young nor so hypocritical as to pretend that these things were to be despised.
- Extract from : « The Best Short Stories of 1920 » by Various
- It was another manifestation of hypocritical sanctimoniousness.
- Extract from : « Jesus the Christ » by James Edward Talmage
- Above all, I am one who hates all falsehood, all hypocritical show.
- Extract from : « Olive » by Dinah Maria Craik, (AKA Dinah Maria Mulock)
- Do we belong to Him, or are we false, hypocritical children of the Evil One?
- Extract from : « Three Years on the Plains » by Edmund B. Tuttle
Synonyms for hypocritical
- affected
- artificial
- assuming
- bland
- canting
- captious
- caviling
- deceptive
- deluding
- dissembling
- double
- double-dealing
- duplicitous
- faithless
- false
- feigning
- fishy
- fraudulent
- glib
- hollow
- insincere
- jivey
- left-handed
- lying
- moralistic
- oily
- pharisaical
- phony
- pietistic
- pious
- sanctimonious
- self-righteous
- smooth
- smooth-spoken
- smooth-tongued
- snide
- specious
- spurious
- two-faced
- unctuous
- unnatural
- unreliable
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