hypocrisy

n.虚伪,伪善,

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
hypocrisy (noun)
1.
a feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not , especially the false assumption of an appearance of virtue or religion
2.
an act or instance of hypocrisy
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
hypocrisy (noun)
the pretending of having virtues, principles, or beliefs that one in fact does not have
SYNONYMS:
cant, dissembling, dissimulation, insincerity, piousness
RELATED WORDS:
deceit, deceitfulness, deception, deceptiveness, dishonesty, double-dealing, falsity, perfidy, two-facedness; affectation, affectedness, pretense ( pretence), pretension, pretentiousness, sanctimoniousness, self-righteousness, self-satisfaction; duplicity, fakery, falseness, fraudulentness, shamming; artificiality, glibness, oiliness, smoothness, unctuousness
NEAR ANTONYMS:
candor, directness, forthrightness, frankness, honesty, openheartedness, openness, probity, straightforwardness, truthfulness; artlessness, guilelessness, naturalness, unaffectedness
genuineness, sincereness, sincerity
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