Synonyms for hypocritical
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1. hypocritical

   Synonyms:
   deceitful, dishonest, disingenuous, faithless, false, fraudulent, lying, mendacious, perfidious, traitorous, treacherous, unfaithful, unscrupulous, untrue

   Antonyms:
   candid, equitable, fair, faithful, frank, genuine, good, honest, honorable, ingenuous, just, sincere, straightforward, true, trustworthy, trusty, upright

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1. hypocritical

   Synonyms:
   pharisaical, sanctimonious, smug, smooth, mealy, unctuous, mincing

   Antonyms:
   plain-spoken, candid, truthful, sincere, genuine, transparent

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1. hypocriticaladjective

   professing feelings or virtues one does not have

   "hypocritical praise"

   Antonyms:
   sincere

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1. hypocriticaladjective

   Synonyms:
   pharisaical, canting, sanctimonious

2. hypocriticaladjective

   Synonyms:
   dissembling, insincere, false, hollow

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1. hypocriticaladjective

   Synonyms:
   pharisaical, canting, dissembling, sanctimonious, insincere

   Antonyms:
   sincere, unfeigned, undissembling, ingenuous

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1. List of paraphrases for "hypocritical":

   hypocrite, hypocrisy, sanctimonious, two-faced, disingenuous, pious, sham

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1. Anne Dunsmore:

   I think prior to that and even during the French Laundry (incident), his staff reportedly was sitting there saying, ‘Don’t worry about it,’ and he was thinking, ‘I need to work about it,’ i think his very obvious default is to go to political messaging rather than policy planning. And this is he started to have problems because it has created inconsistent decisions, and hypocritical decisions, and very transparently poor decisions.

2. Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi:

   Instead of hypocritical displays of compassion and repulsive bragging, you should end your economic and medical terrorism so that medicine and medical supplies can reach medical staff and the Iranian people, we do not need American doctors.

3. Malik Zulu Shabazz:

   The pro-Farrakhan activists used the day on Capitol Hill to denounce a resolution Rep. Todd Rokita, an Indiana Republican, proposed that condemns Farrakhan. We cannot allow a politically hypocritical political situation to exist whereas an openly racist president, Donald Trump is given a free pass and to spew racist venom and racist policies by a confederate based GOP.

4. Camille Paglia:

   Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.

5. Hank Sheinkopf:

   Is there an irony here because he spoke incessantly about the income gap and is now earning from those same people he criticized? Yes it is, should we expect it? Yes, we should because all former presidents do this. He went on the attack against Wall Street and now he’s being fed by those same people he called ‘fat cats’. It’s more hypocritical than ironic.