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[ noun ] a person who professes beliefs and opinions that they do not hold
Synonyms Used in print (Chicago Daily Tribune...)His addle-brained knight-errant , self appointed to the ridiculous position in an age when armor had already been relegated to museums and the chivalrous code of knight-errantry had become a joke , is , as Cervantes no_doubt intended , a gaunt but gracious symbol of good , moving soberly and sincerely in a world of cynics , hypocrites and rogues . (Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)Whatever their faults , they are not hypocrites . (Guy Endore, Voltaire! Voltaire!...)Rousseau was aware that he must seem like a hypocrite , standing there and arguing that he could not possibly permit a public performance . Related terms |
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