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Definition of hypocrite : 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.

Synonyms:

bluenose, Pecksniff, God on wheels, deceiver, traitor, phoney, four-flusher, trickster, attitudinizer, poseur, actor, bigot, adventurer, faker, quack, charlatan, phony, crook, rascal, goody-goody, pseud, imposter, phari, pretender, mountebank, fraud, conman, informer, two-face, fake, humbug, sharper, dissimulator, whited sepulcher, role player, sham, dissembler, Holy Willie, poser, Holy Joe, one given to hypocrisy, confidence man, shammer, masquerader, liar, wheeler-dealer, pseudo, decoy, backslider, tartuffe, politician, casuist, honest, spieler, knave, bunko steerer, sophist, Uriah Heep, fixer, malingerer, cheat, impostor, Judas, stool pigeon, swindler, brown-nose, two-timer

Usage examples:

• I cannot pretend that I shall be sorry to see the last of him, for I am not a hypocrite. - "The Altar Steps", Compton MacKenzie.
• Hypocrite of genius, eh? - "The Dark Flower", John Galsworthy.
• He could not be a hypocrite. - "The Fatal Glove", Clara Augusta Jones Trask.