hypocrite

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A person who pretends to have beliefs or standards that their own actions do not match.

   He's a hypocrite who tells everyone to save money but spends recklessly himself.

From Old French ypocrite (Modern French hypocrite), from Latin hypocrita, from Ancient Greek ὑποκριτής (hupokritḗs, “actor, hypocrite”), from ὑποκρίνομαι (hupokrínomai, “to answer, act, feign”). Displaced native Old English līċettere.

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