Crossword-Solution: HYPOCRISY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hypocrisy | n. | The act or practice of a hypocrite; a feigning to be what one is not, or to feel what one does not feel; a dissimulation, or a concealment of one's real character, disposition, or motives; especially, the assuming of false appearance of virtue or religion; a simulation of goodness. |
We have 63 clues for the answer “HYPOCRISY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| simulation of goodness | 1 answer |
| pharisaism | 1 answer |
| pecksniffery | 1 answer |
| Tartuffism | 1 answer |
| Tartuffery | 1 answer |
| Pretense of virtue | 1 answer |
| PRETENCE of virtue | 1 answer |
| MORAL pretence | 1 answer |
| Glibness | 4 answers |
| Double life? | 9 answers |
| false appearance | 10 answers |
| lip homage | 11 answers |
| Crocodile tears? | 14 answers |
| Treachery | 15 answers |
| CASUISTRY | 20 answers |
| fraudulence | 21 answers |
| religiosity | 25 answers |
| falsity | 26 answers |
| hollowness | 27 answers |
| bad faith | 28 answers |
| lip service | 37 answers |
| Whitewash | 40 answers |
| pietism | 40 answers |
| tongue in cheek | 41 answers |
| imposture | 47 answers |
| Fabrication | 48 answers |
| diddle | 52 answers |
| Cant | 55 answers |
| deviousness | 57 answers |
| deceitfulness | 57 answers |
| perfidiousness | 57 answers |
| sanctimoniousness | 57 answers |
| sycophancy | 57 answers |
| dupery | 58 answers |
| cozenage | 58 answers |
| affectedness | 58 answers |
| Unctuousness | 58 answers |
| shuffling | 58 answers |
| untruthfulness | 59 answers |
| simulation | 59 answers |
| Falsification | 60 answers |
| unreliability | 60 answers |
| showmanship | 60 answers |
| Prevarication | 60 answers |
| insincerity | 61 answers |
| faithlessness | 61 answers |
| artificiality | 62 answers |
| quackery | 64 answers |
| Fencing | 65 answers |
| dissimulation | 65 answers |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with HYPOCRISY (5)
Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.” Dark and terrible as is this picture, I hold it to be strictly true of the overwhelming mass of professed Christians in America.
What can thy silence do for him, except it tempt him—yea, compel him, as it were—to add hypocrisy to sin? Heaven hath granted thee an open ignominy, that thereby thou mayest work out an open triumph over the evil within thee and the sorrow without.
This seeming ambivalence concerning the future of slavery on the part of the Continental Congress left Samuel Johnson's ironic question about American hypocrisy unanswered.
Amongst dissolute and unprincipled men, of whom the Temple Order included but too many, Albert of Templestowe might be distinguished; but with this difference from the audacious Bois-Guilbert, that he knew how to throw over his vices and his ambition the veil of hypocrisy, and to assume in his exterior the fanaticism which he internally despised.
They cooked their meat before they ate it and they shunned many articles of food as unclean that Tarzan had eaten with gusto all his life and so insidious is the virus of hypocrisy that even the stalwart ape-man hesitated to give rein to his natural longings before them.
Quotes with HYPOCRISY (3)
Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.
I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely — or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!
Go back, go back to sleep. Yes, you are allowed. You who have no Love in your heart, you can go back to sleep. The power of Loveis exclusive to us, you can go back to sleep. I have been burntby the fire of Love. You who have no such yearning in your heart, go back to sleep. The path of Love, has seventy-two folds and countless facets. Your love and religionis all about deceit, control and hypocrisy, go back to sleep. I have torn to pieces my robe of speech, and have let go of…
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Appears in: USA TODAY.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1995).