Synonyms for hypocrite
Most common
cheat pretender deceiver flip-flopper liar pietist religionist munafiq
All synonyms
Noun
1. Pretender
pretender, deceiver, flip-flopper, phony informal US, phoney UK, cheat, imposter, dissembler, dissimulator, mocker dated
Other
liar, one to talk, formalist, canter, pietist, religionist, munafiq
Definitions
- n. 1
Someone who practices hypocrisy, who pretends to hold beliefs, or whose actions are not consistent with their claimed beliefs.
Forms
- Plural
- hypocrites → pretenders, deceivers, flip-floppers, phonies…
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The deceiver seeks to give false impressions of any matter where he has an end to gain; the dissembler or hypocrite seeks to give false impressions in regard to himself.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- cheat I felt like hitting him when he tried to cheat me.
- pretender They knew how to unmask the prince pretender.
- deceiver The truth is, he is nothing other than a deceiver.
- liar He told me he was a liar, but I don't believe him.
By length
- 4 letters
- liar2
- 5 letters
- cheat1, phony2
- 6 letters
- phoney2, canter2, mocker
- 7 letters
- pietist, munafiq
- 8 letters
- imposter3, deceiver
- 9 letters
- pretender3, formalist3
- 10 letters
- dissembler
- 11 letters
- religionist4
- 12 letters
- dissimulator
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (liar2 = 2 syllables).