hypocriticadj.n.
/hɪpəʊˈkrɪtɪk/ A. adj.
= hypocritical adj.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > sanctimoniousness > [adjective]
pope-holya1387
Pharisaical1527
as holy (also as sick, as strong) as a horse1530
hypocritish1531
hypocritic1540
hypocritely1541
hypocritical1553
horse-holy?1589
sanctified1604
Pharisee-like1611
sanctimoniousa1616
Pharisaica1618
lip-holy1624
Bible-bearing1625
canting1663
unctuous1742
pietistical1753
pietical1782
goody-goody1785
goody1808
Sunday school1817
Pecksniffian1844
goodyish1848
goody-good1851
devil-dodging?1861
pietic1865
mawwormish1883
pietistic1884
mawwormy1885
pi1891
pietose1893
holier-than-thou1912
antimacassar1913
holy1958
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > hypocrisy > [adjective]
whiteda1225
hypocritec1380
papelarda1500
dissimuling?1518
dissembling1526
Pharisaical1527
hypocritish1531
masking1538
hypocritic1540
hypocritely1541
hypocritical1553
mimic1591
transom-eyed1601
tonguey1612
sanctimoniousa1616
Pharisaica1618
crocodilian1632
hypocrital1658
canting1663
double-minded1727
Tartufish1768
dissimulating1794
dissimulative1802
sawneying1808
sham-Abra(ha)m1828
Tartuffian1872
Pecksniffian1874
mawwormish1883
Chadbandian1908
1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 24 Preamble The hipocritike & superstiouse Religions within this Realme.
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 267 Their rules are many and masqued under a serious (hypocritique) sanctitie.
a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 184 And, like an hypocritic Brother, Profest one thing, and did another.
1763 C. Churchill Author 18 His silken smiles, his hypocritic air.
1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. iii. ii. 211 All your selfish hypocritic pride.
B. n. rare.† 2. The art of declamation with appropriate gestures (= Greek ἡ ὑποκριτική, sc. τέχνη). rare.
1. = hypocrite n.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > hypocrisy > [noun] > a hypocrite
hypocrite?c1225
dissimuler1386
whited (painted) sepulchre1388
dissimulator?a1513
dissembler1526
cafard1539
Tartuffe1688
hypocritic1818
Pecksniff1844
possum1846
slape-face1847
double-face1892
1818 W. Hazlitt Lect. Eng. Poets (1870) viii. 199 He plays the hypocritic on himself.
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the mind > language > speech > speech-making > rhetoric > [noun]
rhetoricc1330
pronunciation?a1439
rhetory?a1500
well-speaking1511
oratorya1522
rhetorism1569
declaiming1577
pronouncec1600
acroama1603
eloquence1623
rhetoricalness1670
hypocritic1776
union1834
Speakership1887
oracy1965
1776 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music I. 159 The term hypocritic..is used to express gesture, or theatrical action.
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