0 someone who says they have particular moral beliefs but behaves in way that shows these are not sincere:
He would be a hypocrite, and we have a perfectly good word for that, without fiddling with the notion of truth.
To put it more simply, very often, archaeological theorists, the author of this article included, can appear as hypocrites.
The world, as he saw it, was full of chisellers and con-men, hypocrites and grifters who were either ludicrous or malevolent or both.
It is said to be the hypocrite, who deceives others with false doctrines.
Monks and priests are often represented as high-living hypocrites whereas nuns appear as beautiful exemplars of genuine charity.
The hypocrites depart from the threshold of fortune by the efforts of their own feet and fall into destruction.
To judge the real character as "bad" by an impossible standard of perfection, however, is to impose criminal liability without fault (and to turn every judge into a hypocrite).
That impression is not so much one of lions led by donkeys as of hippopotami managed by hypocrites.
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