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Synonyms for hypocritical

  • adjective

Most common

two-faced insincere sanctimonious duplicitous hollow deceitful faithless unctuous

All synonyms

Adjective

insincere, sanctimonious, two-faced, duplicitous, deceitful, double-faced, false, unctuous, hollow, faithless, canting, smooth, pharisaic, pharisaical, hypocritic, dishonest, perfidious, double-tongued

Antonyms

honest, sincere, nonhypocritical

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Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite.

    Near-synonyms: double-faced, two-faced, Janus-faced, duplicitous (these denote intentional deception)

Example sentences

  • insincere The letter sounds forced, what is worse, insincere.
  • sanctimonious I've had enough of this sanctimonious talk.
  • duplicitous Fadil fell hard for a duplicitous married woman.
  • hollow Near Sleepy Hollow is a village called Tarry Town.
  • deceitful I learned the hard way that silence can be deceitful.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
hypocriticalsteady
insincererising
sanctimoniousrising
duplicitousrising
hollowsteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

5 letters
false1
6 letters
smooth1, hollow2
7 letters
canting
8 letters
unctuous2
9 letters
dishonest3, deceitful3, insincere3, faithless, pharisaic
10 letters
perfidious, hypocritic
11 letters
duplicitous4, pharisaical
13 letters
sanctimonious5

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (hollow2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
hypocrite
Español
hipócrita
Deutsch
heuchlerisch
Català
hipòcrita