hypocrisy

hypocrisy
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
n. deceit, dissembling, pretense, falsity, insincerity; sanctimony, cant, Phariseeism. See falsehood, impiety. Ant., honesty, sincerity.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
Syn. quackery, casuistry, pharisaism, sanctimoniousness, affectation, pietism, false guise, bad faith, hollowness, display, charlatanry, lip service, bigotry, dissimulation, sham, fraud, pretense of virtue, false goodness, lip homage, formalism, false piety, assumed piety, empty ceremony, tartuffism, solemn mockery, tartuffery, lip reverence, sanctimony, false profession, cant, bunkum*, bunk*; see also deception 1 , dishonesty , lie 1 , pretense 1 .
Ant. virtue*, devotion, piety.
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
lip service, pretense, insincerity, phoniness, imposture, falsity, pietism, sanctimoniousness, Pharisaism, duplicity, two-facedness, crocodile tears. ''A mouth that prays, a hand that kills.''—Arabian proverb.
ANT.: sincerity, genuineness, honesty
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun A show or expression of feelings or beliefs one does not actually hold or possess: pharisaism, phoniness, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, tar-tuffery, two-facedness. See HONEST.

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