Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: hypocrites
IPA transcription: [h'ɪpəkɹ,ɪts]
Usage examples
  • The people shall know you for what you are--cowards and hypocrites, faithless to your trust!
  • But, whatever your answer, society fortunately is not made up of hypocrites or rascals of any kind.
  • "The political hypocrites who control this Congress," he shouted, "told us we were to settle the question of Power--and it is being settled behind our backs, before the Congress opens!
  • Into Tartarus were thrown, never to come out again, the shades or manes of traitors, ingrates, perjurers, unnatural children, murderers and hypocrites who had during their lives pretended to be upright and honorable in order to deceive the just.
  • Thus, too, we do not contemn works and ceremonies--nay, we set the highest value on them; but we contemn the belief in works, which no one should consider to constitute true righteousness, as do those hypocrites who employ and throw away their whole life in the pursuit of works, and yet never attain to that for the sake of which the works are done.