(disapproving) a person who pretends to have moral standards or opinions that they do not actually have:
Charles was a liar and a hypocrite who married her for money.
hypocritical adjective:
It would be hypocritical of me to have a church wedding when I don't believe in God.
hypocritically adverb
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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This entry for hypocrite is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is hypocrite a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, hypocrite is tagged as noun.
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