hypocrisy
noun
[ hɪˈpɒkrɪsi ]
• the practice of claiming to have higher standards or more noble beliefs than is the case.
• "his target was the hypocrisy of suburban life"
Similar:
sanctimoniousness,
sanctimony,
pietism,
piousness,
affected piety,
affected superiority,
false virtue,
cant,
humbug,
pretence,
posturing,
speciousness,
empty talk,
insincerity,
falseness,
falsity,
deceptiveness,
deceit,
deceitfulness,
deception,
dishonesty,
dissembling,
dissimulation,
duplicity,
imposture,
two-facedness,
double-dealing,
phoneyness,
Pharisaism,
Tartufferie,
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French ypocrisie, via ecclesiastical Latin, from Greek hupokrisis ‘acting of a theatrical part’, from hupokrinesthai ‘play a part, pretend’, from hupo ‘under’ + krinein ‘decide, judge’.
