Reverse Dictionary: HYPOCRISY

ADJECTIVES
► CALOPHANTIC pretending or making a show of excellence; hypocritical → 1602 obs.
► DOUBLE-FACED practicing duplicity; hypocritical → 1565
► HYPOCRITAL hypocritical → 1658
► HYPOCRITISH hypocritical; characterized by hypocrisy → 1531 obs.
► MASKING hypocritical → 1577 obs.
► MEALY-MOUTHED reticent, reserved, afraid to speak out; plausible, smooth-tongued, hypocritical → 1836 Sc. & Eng. dial. obs.
► PAPELARD hypocritical (for greed or gain) → c1340
► PECKSNIFFIAN making high pretensions to benevolence and virtue while really mean, selfish, and hypocritical → 1844
► QUEEVERLY fawning; hypocritical → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► TARTUFFISH hypocritical, pretentious → 1768
► THIN-SKINNED hypocritical → 1914 Amer. dial. (Bk.)

NOUNS
► FAINTISE deceit, dissimulation, hypocrisy, pretense → 1340 obs.
► FAITERY fraud, deception, hypocrisy → 1377 obs.
► HILL OF SHIT anybody or anything unpleasant, disgusting, of poor quality etc.; a piece of gross hypocrisy → 1940s sl., orig. US
► HYPOCRISIS hypocrisy, dissembling, feigning; a false or deceitful show → c1225
► HYPOCRISM hypocrisy → 1605 obs.
► PAPELARDRY sycophancy, hypocrisy for greed or gain → c1400 obs.
► PAPELARDY sycophancy, hypocrisy for greed or gain → c1400 obs.
► PIECE OF SHIT anybody or anything unpleasant, disgusting, of poor quality etc.; a disliked person; a piece of gross hypocrisy → 1940s sl., orig. US
► PILE OF CRAP anybody or anything unpleasant, disgusting, of poor quality etc.; a disliked person; a piece of gross hypocrisy → 1940s sl., orig. US
► PILE OF SHIT anybody or anything unpleasant, disgusting, worthless, of poor quality etc.; a disliked person; a piece of gross hypocrisy → 1940s sl., orig. US
► PILE OF SHITE anybody or anything unpleasant, disgusting, of poor quality etc.; a disliked person; a piece of gross hypocrisy → 1940s sl., orig. US
► WHITE DEVIL the devil disguised as a virtuous being; hence, a hypocrite, hypocrisy → 1573

NOUNS – PERSON
► ABDELI a hypocrite, a canting preacher; a fastidious or false zealot → Bk1892 Anglo-Indian sl.
► ALIAS MAN a confidence swindler; a cheat; a hypocrite; anyone unethical → 1961 Jamaica sl.
► BABE OF GRACE one who looks holier-than-thou, but is not; a hypocrite → E19 sl.
► BACK-AND-BELLY a hypocrite; an untrustworthy person → 1995 W. Indies
► BACK-AND-FRONT a hypocrite → 1958 W. Indies
► BADGER-BILL a hypocrite; a two-faced untrustworthy person → 1943 W. Indies sl.
► BANBURY-BLOOD a Puritan; hence, a hypocrite → 1909 UK sl.
► BANBURY MAN a Puritan; a bigot; a sour or severe man; a hypocrite → Bk1889 obs.
► CAFARD a hypocrite, an impostor → 1539 obs.
► CHRISTACRUTCHIAN n. a religious hypocrite → 1997 US sl.
► COW’S TONGUE a person who is mild or harsh-spoken according to circumstance; a two-faced person; a hypocrite; a gruff old codger who is soft-hearted → 1898 Eng. & Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► CROCODILE a person who weeps or makes a show of sorrow hypocritically or with a malicious purpose → 1595
► DOUBLE-FACE a hypocrite → 1892
► FAFFNECUTE ► FEFFICUTE ► FEFFMECUTE ► FEFFNECUTE ► FEFNICUTE  ► THEFNICUTE a hypocrite; a mean, sneaking fellow; a parasite, a hanger-on 1864 Eng. dial.
► FALSE-FACE a hypocrite, a deceitful or insincere person → Bk1900 Sc.
► GAR-ME-TRUE a hypocrite, a pretender; a philanderer; one who makes believe → 1871 Sc.
► GOOD YOUNG MAN a hypocrite → L19 sl.
► HIPER a hypocrite → Bk1902 Eng. dial.
► HYPOCRITIC a hypocrite → 1818
► PAINTED SEPULCHRE a hypocrite; one whose true thoughts belie his fair pretense → Bk1922
► PAPELARD a flattering parasite; a hypocrite; a sycophant → 1340 obs.
► POSSUM a dissembler, a hypocrite; a devious or crafty person → 1846 US sl.
► SAINT a hypocrite → 1823
► SAUTEREL ► SAUTERELL a wretch: a term of abuse; a hypocrite; one pretending sanctity → c1440 obs.
► SHUCK a person who is insincere or hypocritical → 1975 US sl. (Bk.)
► SPANISH MACHETE a hypocrite → 1894 W. Indies
► WHITE DEVIL the devil disguised as a virtuous being; hence, a hypocrite, hypocrisy → 1573

PHRASES
► HE WOULDN’T SAY ‘SHIT’ EVEN IF HE HAD A MOUTH FULL OF IT used of an especially mealy-mouthed, hypocritical person → 20C Can. sl.

VERBS
► FAFF ► FEFF to flatter; to fawn, to play the hypocrite → 1898 Eng. dial.
► FEFNICUTE to fawn, to play the hypocrite; to speak fair to a person, but revile him to others → 19C Eng. dial.
► HYPOCRIFY to play the hypocrite → 1716 obs.
► HYPOCRISE to practice hypocrisy → 1680
► HYPOCRITIZE to act as a hypocrite → 1683 obs.
► PASS A SHAM SAINT to play the hypocrite → E18 sl.
► TAKE ON to assume; to feign, to pretend; to act as a hypocrite → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► TALK FROM THE TEETH OUT to speak hypocritically → 20C Ulster sl.