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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives;
[syn: hypocrite, dissembler, dissimulator, phony, phoney, pretender]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Hypocrite \Hyp"o*crite\, n. [F., fr. L. hypocrita, Gr. ? one who plays a part on the stage, a dissembler, feigner. See Hypocrisy.] One who plays a part; especially, one who, for the purpose of winning approbation of favor, puts on a fair outside seeming; one who feigns to be other and better than he is; a false pretender to virtue or piety; one who simulates virtue or piety. [1913 Webster] The hypocrite's hope shall perish. --Job viii. 13. [1913 Webster] I dare swear he is no hypocrite, but prays from his heart. --Shak. Syn: Deceiver; pretender; cheat. See Dissembler. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

hypocrite n 1: a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives [syn: hypocrite, dissembler, dissimulator, phony, phoney, pretender]
The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):

HYPOCRITE, n. One who, profession virtues that he does not respect secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.