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Hypocrisy See also Pretension. Alceste judged most social behavior as hypocritical. [Fr. Lit.: Le Misanthrope] self-righteous abbot of the Capuchins at Madrid. [Br. Lit.: Ambrosio, or The Monk] externally austere but inwardly violent. [Br. Lit.: Measure for Measure] enchanter, disguised as hermit, wins confidence of Knight. [Br. Lit.: Faerie Queene] false prude. [Fr. Lit.: The Misanthrope] trusted domestic; betrays those he serves. [Fr. Lit.: Atar Gul, Walsh Modern, 32] 12th-century French order regarded as hypocritical. [Fr. Hist.: Espy, 99] Allworthy’s nephew; talebearer and consummate pietist. [Br. Lit.: Tom Jones] (1628–1680) false in honor and religion. [Br. Lit.: Peveril of the Peak, Walsh Modern, 61] Emma’s lover pretends repentance to avoid commitment. [Fr. Lit.: Madame Bovary] religious charlatan. [Am. Lit.: Undiscovered Country] insincere speeches made solely to please this constituency by its representative, 1819–1821. [Am. Usage: Misc.] ridicules people when absent; flatters them when present. [Fr. Lit.: Le Misanthrope] lives luxuriously by religious cant. [Br. Lit.: The Hypocrite, Brewer Handbook, 175] pharisaic preacher; thinks he’s edifying his hearers. [Br. Lit.: Bleak House]
conspirator; false to everyone. [Br. Lit.: Peveril of the Peak, Walsh Modern, 96] crocodile said to weep after devouring prey. [Western Folklore: Jobes, 383; Mercatante, 9–10] acted the humble minister for seven years while former amour suffered. [Am. Lit.: The Scarlet Letter] pretend piety on Sabbath but demand dinner. [Br. Lit.: Nicholas Nickleby] ranting preacher succumbs to alcohol, fornication, theft, and cowardice. [Am. Lit.: Elmer Gantry] humble manner masks sly, shirking character. [Br. Lit.: Barnaby Rudge] to inherit their father’s possessions they falsely profess great love for him. [Br. Drama: Shakespeare King Lear] gentleman with adults, troublemaker behind their backs. [TV: “Leave it to Beaver” in Terrace, II, 18–19] the essence of insincerity. [Br. Lit.: David Copperfield] his philanthropy hid animosity. [Br. Lit.: Edwin Drood] self-righteous pastor agrees to blackmail. [Nor. Lit.: Ghosts] a “most vile” hedge-priest. [Br. Lit.: As You Like It] sanctimonious preacher. [Br. Lit.: The Hypocrite, Brewer Handbook, 687] embraces religion when it is easy to practice and to his advantage. [Br. Lit.: Bunyan Pilgrim’s Progress] official speech of Oceania; language of contradictions. [Br. Lit.: 1984] pretentious, unforgiving architect of double standards. [Br. Lit.: Martin Chuzzlewit] sanctimonious lawgivers do not practise what they preach. [N.T.: Matthew 3:7; 23:1–15; Luke 18:9–14] false fronts constructed to deceive. [Russ. Hist.: Espy, 339] sanctimonious and pretentious person (Fr. n’y touche). [Fr. Usage: Brewer Dictionary, 760] sanctimonious hypocrite; placed stepsons in Dotheboys Hall. [Br. Lit.: Nicholas Nickleby]
Tom’s tutor; spouts hypocritically about the beauty of virtue. [Br. Lit.: Tom Jones] pays lip service to high principles while engaging in treacherous intrigues. [Br. Drama: Sheridan The School for Scandal] swindles benefactor by pretending religious piety. [Fr. Lit.: Tartuffe] changes religious affiliation to suit reigning monarch. [Br. Folklore: Walsh Classical, 61] wept in sympathy for the oysters he and the Carpenter devoured. [Br. Lit.: Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass] nickname for hypocritical Tom Gradgrind. [Br. Lit.: Hard Times] analogy in Jesus’s denunciation of Pharisees’ sanctimony. [N.T.: Matthew 23:27] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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And this hypocrisy found I worst amongst them, that even those who command feign the virtues of those who serve. There was a bit of lie in this attitude of mine, a bit of hypocrisy; but the lie and the hypocrisy were those of a man desiring to live. They cooked their meat before they ate it and they shunned many articles of food as unclean that Tarzan had eaten with gusto all his life and so insidious is the virus of hypocrisy that even the stalwart ape-man hesitated to give rein to his natural longings before them. |
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