English-Thai Dictionary

hypocrisy

N ความ เจ้าเล่ห์  ความ หลอกลวง  kwam-jao-le

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HYPOCRISY

n.[L. hypocrisis; Gr. simulation; to feign; to separate, discern or judge. ] 1. Simulation; a feigning to be what one is not; or dissimulation, a concealment of one's real character or motives. More generally, hypocrisy is simulation, or the assuming of a false appearance of virtue or religion; a deceitful show of a good character, in morals or religion; a counterfeiting of religion.
Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. Luke 12:1.
2. Simulation; deceitful appearance; false pretence.
Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

HYPOCRISY

Hy *poc "ri *sy, n.; pl. Hypocrisies. Etym: [OE. hypocrisie, ypocrisie,OF. hypocrisie, ypocrisie, F. hypocrisie, L. hypocrisis, fr. Gr. Hypo-, and Critic. ]

 

Defn: 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. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy. Rambler. Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. La Rochefoucauld (Trans. ).

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

hypocrisy

hy poc ri sy |hiˈpäkrisē həˈpɑkrəsi | ▶noun ( pl. hypocrisies ) the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French ypocrisie, via ecclesiastical Latin, from Greek hupokrisis ‘acting of a theatrical part, ’ from hupokrinesthai ‘play a part, pretend, ’ from hupo ‘under ’ + krinein ‘decide, judge. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

hypocrisy

hyp |oc ¦risy |hɪˈpɒkrɪsi | ▶noun ( pl. hypocrisies ) [ mass noun ] the practice of claiming to have higher standards or more noble beliefs than is the case. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French ypocrisie, via ecclesiastical Latin, from Greek hupokrisis ‘acting of a theatrical part ’, from hupokrinesthai ‘play a part, pretend ’, from hupo ‘under ’ + krinein ‘decide, judge ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

hypocrisy

hypocrisy noun must politics be the perennial benchmark of hypocrisy? dissimulation, false virtue, cant, posturing, affectation, speciousness, empty talk, insincerity, falseness, deceit, dishonesty, mendacity, pretense, duplicity; sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, pietism, piousness; informal phoniness, fraud. ANTONYMS sincerity.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

hypocrisy

hypocrisy noun plain speaking was important to him —he hated hypocrisy: sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, pietism, piousness, affected piety, affected superiority, false virtue, cant, humbug, pretence, posturing, speciousness, empty talk; insincerity, falseness, falsity, deceptiveness, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, dishonesty, dissembling, dissimulation, duplicity, imposture, two-facedness, double-dealing; informal phoneyness; rare Pharisaism, Tartufferie. ANTONYMS honesty; sincerity.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

hypocrisy

hy poc ri sy /hɪpɑ́krəsi |-pɔ́k -/ (! hy-は /hɪ /; 強勢は第2音節 ) 名詞 複 -sies 1 U 偽善, 見せかけ .2 C 偽善行為 .