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hypocrite n. deceiver, double-dealer, quack, charlatan, impostor or
imposter, mountebank, confidence man or trickster, faker,
pretender, liar, Pharisee, whited sepulchre, Tartuffe,
flimflammer, Colloq phoney or US also phony, con man, flimflam
man or artist, two-face: It is incredible that so many were
duped by that hypocrite.
hypocritical
adj. deceptive, deceitful, deceiving, insincere, dissembling,
feigning, dissimulating, double-dealing, false, fake, faking,
two-faced, pretending, lying, mendacious, Pharisaic(al),
sanctimonious, dishonest, underhand, treacherous, perfidious,
untrustworthy: He regards the Victorians as nothing but smug
prudes and hypocritical moralizers.
hypothesis
n. theory, theorem, postulate, premise or premiss, proposition,
assumption, supposition, speculation: Cadwallader's Hypothesis
is that television sets watch viewers while viewers are watching
them.
hypothetical
adj. assumed, supposed, conjectural, conjectured, hypothesized,
putative, surmised, assumed, presumed, suspected, imagined,
guessed, speculative, speculated, theoretical, suppositional,
suppositious or supposititious: Let us take the hypothetical
case of someone, for example, who refuses to pay income tax.
hysterical
adj. 1 raving, mad, beside oneself, crazed, irrational,
distracted, rabid, frantic, frenzied, wild, berserk,
uncontrolled, uncontrollable, unrestrained, unrestrainable:
They are subject to violent, hysterical outbursts. 2 hilarious,
side-splitting, uproarious, farcical, comical, funny: The
absolutely hysterical sign in our Japanese hotel read, 'You are
invited to take advantage of the chambermaid'.
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