as in liar
a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated opinions
Our coach is such a hypocrite. He demands that we maintain a healthy diet but seems to be always eating fast-food after practice.
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Recent Examples of hypocrite
Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
Such tales enabled them to charge that abolitionists were hypocrites who ignored the plight of England’s factory workers.
—Gunther Peck / Made By History, TIME, 12 Dec. 2024
The filing painted West as a hypocrite who publicly advocates for the fair treatment and proper compensation of artists while exploiting them in private.
—Zoe Guy, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2024
This is the most powerful weapon against this regime of liars, thieves, and hypocrites.
—Alexei Navalny, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
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Noun
These protestors are fighting for a hypocrite, not a hero.
—Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
Such tales enabled them to charge that abolitionists were hypocrites who ignored the plight of England’s factory workers.
—Gunther Peck / Made By History, TIME, 12 Dec. 2024
The filing painted West as a hypocrite who publicly advocates for the fair treatment and proper compensation of artists while exploiting them in private.
—Zoe Guy, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2024
This is the most powerful weapon against this regime of liars, thieves, and hypocrites.
—Alexei Navalny, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hypocrite
Noun
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Anyone saying it’s being done for our health is either a liar or an idiot.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
21 Feb. 2025
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The Hold, its halls bereft of the zealots, liars, and dung-eating murderers who haunt it in Elden Ring, feels empty and perfunctory.—
Josh Broadwell,
Rolling Stone,
19 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The Russian invasion of Ukraine won Vladimir Putin a certain admiration in countries of the global South, as well as among MAGA Americans, while Joe Biden’s appeals to democratic values seemed pallid and hypocritical.—
George Packer,
The Atlantic,
20 Feb. 2025
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But the weekly shows cut much deeper by undermining trust in the process and repeatedly placing the committee chair in position to look hypocritical from one week to the next.—
Jon Wilner,
The Mercury News,
15 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Honest criticism is rude, and insincere praise is — well, insincere.—
Judith Martin,
The Mercury News,
4 Feb. 2025
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Don’t force trendy slang that feels insincere for your brand.—
Noa Eshed,
Forbes,
2 Jan. 2025
Noun
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But Kennedy has a long, undistinguished record of relying on the work of charlatans to make wild charges, of not correcting the record when he is proven wrong, and then going to find more bad evidence to continue to make the same insinuations.—
The Editors,
National Review,
31 Jan. 2025
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That’s because the agency’s duty is to stand in the way of businesses desiring to push unsafe and ineffective nostrums at unwary consumers, and also in the way of a perverse idea that personal freedom includes the freedom to be gulled by charlatans.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Jan. 2025
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“Hypocrite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hypocrite. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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