Entry Word: hypocrisy

Function: noun

Meaning: the pretending of having virtues, principles, or beliefs that one in fact does not have <the hypocrisy of people who claim to care about the environment but ride around in gas-guzzlers>

Synonyms cant, dissembling, dissimulation, insincerity, piousness, sanctimoniousness

Related Words deception, deceptiveness, dishonesty, falsity, pretense, pretension, pretentiousness, self-righteousness, self-satisfaction; duplicity, fakery, falseness, fraudulentness, shamming; artificiality, glibness, oiliness, smoothness, unctuousness

Near Antonyms candor, honesty, openness, probity, straightforwardness, truthfulness; artlessness, guilelessness, naturalness, unaffectedness

Antonyms genuineness, sincerity