HYPOCRITICAL Synonyms

• contrived by art rather than nature

• artificially formal

• not arising from natural growth or characterized by vital processes

• fraudulent; having a misleading appearance

• not genuine; imitating something superior

• a copy that is represented as the original

• make a copy of with the intent to deceive

• causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true

• designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently

• deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive

• capable of being corrupted

• not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness

• marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another

• not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality

• in a disloyal and faithless manner

• arising from error

• erroneous and usually accidental

• deliberately deceptive

• inappropriate to reality or facts

• not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article

• designed to deceive

• inaccurate in pitch

• adopted in order to deceive

• (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful

• lacking sincerity

• given to lying

• intentionally untrue

• a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives

• fraudulent; having a misleading appearance

• making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction

• intended to attract notice and impress others

• (of a display) tawdry or vulgar

• excessively or hypocritically pious

• dangerously unstable and unpredictable

• tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans