hypocrite Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun 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
    phoney; dissembler; phony; dissimulator; pretender.

WordNet

Hyp"o*crite noun
Etymology
F., fr. L. hypocrita, Gr. one who plays a part on the stage, a dissembler, feigner. See Hypocrisy.
Definitions
  1. One who plays a part; especially, one who, for the purpose of winning approbation of favor, puts on a fair outside seeming; one who feigns to be other and better than he is; a false pretender to virtue or piety; one who simulates virtue or piety.
    The hypocrite's hope shall perish. Job viii. 13.
    I dare swear he is no hypocrite, but prays from his heart. Shak.
    Syn. -- Deceiver; pretender; cheat. See Dissembler.

Webster 1913