(n) 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.dissimulator, pretender, dissembler, phony, phoney
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
n. [ F., fr. L. hypocrita, Gr. &unr_; 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.
[かわをかぶる, kawawokaburu] (exp, v5r) (See 猫をかぶる・ねこをかぶる) to conceal one's true nature or feelings; to feign friendliness; to play the hypocrite[Add to Longdo]
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