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View usage for: Synonyms sanctimoniousness lip service religiosity self-righteousness pietism false piety Additional synonymsDefinition insincere talk concerning religion or morals Politicians are holding forth with their usual hypocritical cant. Synonyms hypocrisy, pretence, lip service, humbug, insincerity, pretentiousness, sanctimoniousness, pious platitudes, affected piety, sham holiness Definition the practice of claiming to have standards or beliefs that are contrary to one's real character or actual behaviour He accused newspapers of hypocrisy in their treatment of the story. Synonyms insincerity, pretence, deceit, deception, cant, duplicity, dissembling, falsity, imposture, sanctimoniousness, phoniness (informal), deceitfulness, pharisaism, speciousness, two-facedness, phariseeism Too many superlatives lend a note of insincerity. Synonyms deceitfulness, hypocrisy, pretence, dishonesty, lip service, duplicity, deviousness, perfidy (literary), mendacity, dissimulation, faithlessness, disingenuousness, untruthfulness Nearby words ofpharisaism - phantasy
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Pharisaism in British English (ˈfærɪseɪˌɪzəm) or Phariseeism (ˈfærɪsiːˌɪzəm) noun1. Judaism the tenets and customs of the Pharisees 2. (often not capital) observance of the external forms of religion without genuine belief; hypocrisy Pharisaism in American English (ˈfærəˌseɪˌɪzəm) noun1. the beliefs and practices of the Pharisees 2. [p-] pharisaic behavior, character, principles, etc. Word origin ModL Pharisaïsmus < Gr(Ec) pharisaios: see Pharisee Synonyms of 'Pharisaism'sanctimoniousness, hypocrisy, lip service, cant More Synonyms of Pharisaism |