All hypocrisy synonyms

noun hypocrisy

• deceitfulness — given to deceiving: A deceitful person cannot keep friends for long.
• fraud — deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.
• deception — Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
• duplicity — deceitfulness in speech or conduct, as by speaking or acting in two different ways to different people concerning the same matter; double-dealing. Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissimulation, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, trickery. Antonyms: candidness, directness, honesty, straightforwardness.
• mockery — ridicule, contempt, or derision.
• bigotry — Bigotry is the possession or expression of strong, unreasonable prejudices or opinions.
• insincerity — the quality of being insincere; lack of sincerity; hypocrisy; deceitfulness.
• deceit — Deceit is behaviour that is deliberately intended to make people believe something which is not true.
• dishonesty — lack of honesty; a disposition to lie, cheat, or steal.
• double-dealing — duplicity; treachery; deception.
• lie — Jonas, 1880–1940, U.S. painter, born in Norway.
• casuistry — Casuistry is the use of clever arguments to persuade or trick people.
• sanctimoniousness — making a hypocritical show of religious devotion, piety, righteousness, etc.: They resented his sanctimonious comments on immorality in America.
• falsity — the quality or condition of being false; incorrectness; untruthfulness; treachery.
• sanctimony — pretended, affected, or hypocritical religious devotion, righteousness, etc.
• cant — a salient angle.
• pietism — a movement, originating in the Lutheran Church in Germany in the 17th century, that stressed personal piety over religious formality and orthodoxy.
• quackery — the practice or methods of a quack.
• speciousness — apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments.
• affectation — If you say that someone's attitude or behaviour is an affectation, you disapprove of the fact that it is not genuine or natural, but is intended to impress other people.
• irreverence — the quality of being irreverent; lack of reverence or respect.
• display — to show or exhibit; make visible: to display a sign.
• imposture — the action or practice of imposing fraudulently upon others.
• glibness — readily fluent, often thoughtlessly, superficially, or insincerely so: a glib talker; glib answers.
• unctuous — characterized by excessive piousness or moralistic fervor, especially in an affected manner; excessively smooth, suave, or smug.
• dissembling — to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of: to dissemble one's incompetence in business.
• dissimulation — the act of dissimulating; feigning; hypocrisy.
• double standard — any code or set of principles containing different provisions for one group of people than for another, especially an unwritten code of sexual behavior permitting men more freedom than women. Compare single standard (def 1).
• pretense — pretending or feigning; make-believe: My sleepiness was all pretense.
• pretence — pretending or feigning; make-believe: My sleepiness was all pretense.
• two-faced — having two faces.
• falseness — not true or correct; erroneous: a false statement.
• lip service — insincere expression of friendship, admiration, support, etc.; service by words only: He paid only lip service to the dictator.
• pharisaism — the principles and practices of the Pharisees.
• phoniness — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
• bad faith — intention to deceive; treachery or dishonesty (esp in the phrase in bad faith)