Hypocrisy

Noun

 * 1) the claim or pretense of holding beliefs, feelings, standards, qualities, opinions or virtues that one does not actually possess.
 * 2) applying criticism to others that one does not apply equally to oneself; moral self-contradiction whereby the behavior of one or more people belies their own claimed or implied possession of certain beliefs, standards or virtues.
 * 3) an instance of either of the above.

Derived terms

 * hypocritical
 * hypocritically
 * hypocrite

Adjectives for Hypocrisy
smooth; habitual; adjusted; smug; unsleeping; transparent; coarse; blustering.

Verbs for Hypocrisy
accuse of—; befog with—; blanket in—; clothe in—; couch in—; denounce—; despise —; detest—; discern—; explode—; feed—; oil •with—; protest—; prove—; purge of—; repent—; steep in—; trick by—; —beguiles; —deceives; —disgusts; —frames; —veils.

Thesaurus
Pecksniffery, Pharisaism, Tartuffery, Tartuffism, affectation, affectedness, airs, airs and graces, artfulness, artificiality, cant, casuistry, charlatanism, charlatanry, chicanery, craft, cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, double-dealing, duplicity, empty gesture, facade, fakery, false front, false piety, false show, falseheartedness, falseness, feigned belief, front, furtiveness, glibness, goody-goodiness, guile, humbug, hypocriticalness, image, indirection, insidiousness, insincerity, lip service, lying, mannerism, mealymouthedness, mendacity, mere show, mouthing, mummery, oiliness, ostentatious devotion, pecksniffery, pharisaicalness, pharisaism, pietism, pietisticalness, piety, piousness, pretense, pretension, prunes and prisms, public image, put-on, putting on airs, quackery, religionism, religiosity, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, self-righteousness, sham, shiftiness, show, sneak attack, sneakiness, snivel, snuffle, snuffling, soft soap, stylishness, surreptitiousness, sweet talk, tokenism, treacherousness, two-facedness, unction, unctuousness, underhandedness, unnaturalness

Etymology
From ipocrisie: <  ypocrisie: <  hypocrisis: <  ὑπόκρισις: < ὑποκρίνομαι: < ὑπό: + the middle voice of κρίνω:.

Translations

 * Arabic: رياء, نفاق
 * Armenian: երեսպաշտություն
 * Catalan: hipocresia
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 虛偽, 虚伪, 假惺惺,, 伪善
 * Czech:, přetvářka,  lícoměrnost
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Heuchelei
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ढोंग
 * Icelandic:, ,


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: (僞善),  위선적 행위
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: دورویی
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ipocrizie
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: licemerje / licemjerje, licemerstvo / licemjerstvo , dvoličnost , dvoličje , himba , hipokrizija
 * Slovene: dvoličnost, licemerstvo, licemerje
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: hyckleri
 * Vietnamese: đạo đức giả