hypocrite

hypocrite
    n 1: a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she
         does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings
         or motives [syn: {hypocrite}, {dissembler}, {dissimulator},
         {phony}, {phoney}, {pretender}]
    

Hypocrite \Hyp"o*crite\, n. [F., fr. L. hypocrita, Gr. ? one who
   plays a part on the stage, a dissembler, feigner. See
   {Hypocrisy}.]
   One who plays a part; especially, one who, for the purpose of
   winning approbation of favor, puts on a fair outside seeming;
   one who feigns to be other and better than he is; a false
   pretender to virtue or piety; one who simulates virtue or
   piety.
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         The hypocrite's hope shall perish.       --Job viii.
                                                  13.
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         I dare swear he is no hypocrite, but prays from his
         heart.                                   --Shak.

   Syn: Deceiver; pretender; cheat. See {Dissembler}.
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HYPOCRITE, n.  One who, profession virtues that he does not respect
secures the advantage of seeming to be what he depises.
    

Hypocrite
one who puts on a mask and feigns himself to be what he is not;
a dissembler in religion. Our Lord severely rebuked the scribes
and Pharisees for their hypocrisy (Matt. 6:2, 5, 16). "The
hypocrite's hope shall perish" (Job 8:13). The Hebrew word here
rendered "hypocrite" rather means the "godless" or "profane," as
it is rendered in Jer. 23:11, i.e., polluted with crimes.
    

80 Moby Thesaurus words for "hypocrite":
      Holy Willie, Joseph Surface, Mawworm, Pecksniff, Pharisee,
      Tartuffe, actor, affecter, ape, attitudinizer, bluffer, canter,
      canting hypocrite, charlatan, con man, confidence man, conformist,
      copier, copycat, copyist, counterfeiter, cuckoo, deceiver,
      dissembler, dissimulator, double-dealer, echo, echoer, echoist,
      fair-weather friend, faker, false friend, flimflam man,
      flimflammer, forger, formalist, fraud, humbug, imitator,
      impersonator, imposter, impostor, liar, lip server, lip worshiper,
      masquerader, mealymouth, mime, mimer, mimic, mimicker, mocker,
      mockingbird, monkey, mountebank, parrot, pharisee, phony, pietist,
      pious fraud, plagiarist, poll-parrot, polly, polly-parrot, poser,
      poseur, pretender, quack, ranter, religionist, religious hypocrite,
      sanctimonious fraud, sham, sheep, simulator, sniveler, snuffler,
      spiritual humbug, summer soldier, whited sepulcher