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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

Pecksniffery, Pharisaism, Tartuffery, Tartuffism, affectation, affectedness, airs, airs and graces, artfulness, artificiality, cant, casuistry, charlatanism, charlatanry, chicanery, craft, cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, double-dealing, duplicity, empty gesture, facade, fakery, false front, false piety, false show, falseheartedness, falseness, feigned belief, front, furtiveness, glibness, goody-goodiness, guile, humbug, hypocriticalness, image, indirection, insidiousness, insincerity, lip service, lying, mannerism, mealymouthedness, mendacity, mere show, mouthing, mummery, oiliness, ostentatious devotion, pecksniffery, pharisaicalness, pharisaism, pietism, pietisticalness, piety, piousness, pretense, pretension, prunes and prisms, public image, put-on, putting on airs, quackery, religionism, religiosity, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, self-righteousness, sham, shiftiness, show, sneak attack, sneakiness, snivel, snuffle, snuffling, soft soap, stylishness, surreptitiousness, sweet talk, tokenism, treacherousness, two-facedness, unction, unctuousness, underhandedness, unnaturalness

Dictionary Results for hypocrisy:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

hypocrisy
    n 1: an expression of agreement that is not supported by real
         conviction [syn: hypocrisy, lip service]
    2: insincerity by virtue of pretending to have qualities or
       beliefs that you do not really have

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Hypocrisy \Hy*poc"ri*sy\ (h[i^]*p[o^]k"r[i^]*s[y^]), n.; pl.
   Hypocrisies (-s[i^]z). [OE. hypocrisie, ypocrisie, OF.
   hypocrisie, ypocrisie, F. hypocrisie, L. hypocrisis, fr. Gr.
   "ypo`krisis the playing a part on the stage, simulation,
   outward show, fr. "ypokr`nesqai to answer on the stage, to
   play a part; "ypo` under + kri`nein to decide; in the middle
   voice, to dispute, contend. See Hypo-, and Critic.]
   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.
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         Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.
                                                  --Rambler.
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         Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. --La
                                                  Rochefoucauld
                                                  (Trans. ).
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