Hypocritical
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

4 letters

FAKE
(football) a deceptive move made by a football player

GLIB
Marked by lack of intellectual depth; "glib generalizations"; "a glib response to a complex question"

OILY
Containing an unusual amount of grease or oil; "greasy hamburgers"; "oily fried potatoes"; "oleaginous seeds"

SHAM
Something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be

5 letters

BLAND
Lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; "a bland little drama"; "a flat joke"

GOODY
Something considered choice to eat

PHONY
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

LYING
The deliberate act of deviating from the truth

PIOUS
Having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity; "pious readings"

6 letters

AVOWED
Openly declared as such; "an avowed enemy"; "her professed love of everything about that country"; "McKinley was assassinated by a professed anarchist"

DOUBLE
A base hit on which the batter stops safely at second base; "he hit a double to deep centerfield"

HOLLOW
A cavity or space in something; "hunger had caused the hollows in their cheeks"

7 letters

FULSOME
Unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent"; "oleaginous hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the unctuous Uriah Heep"; "soapy compliments"

HALTING
Disabled in the feet or legs; "a crippled soldier"; "a game leg"

ASSUMED
Adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty"

8 letters

SPURIOUS
Plausible but false; "a specious claim"; "spurious inferences"

TWOFACED

UNCTUOUS
Unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent"; "oleaginous hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the unctuous Uriah Heep"; "soapy compliments"

AFFECTED
Speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression

FEIGNING
Pretending with intention to deceive

MANNERED
Having unnatural mannerisms; "brief, mannered and unlifelike idiom"

9 letters

INSINCERE
Lacking sincerity; "a charming but thoroughly insincere woman"; "their praise was extravagant and insincere"

11 letters

DISSEMBLING
The act of deceiving

DOUBLEFACED

TREACHEROUS
Tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans; "Punic faith"; "the perfidious Judas"; "the fiercest and most treacherous of foes"; "treacherous intrigues"

12 letters

AMBIDEXTROUS
Equally skillful with each hand; "an ambidextrous surgeon"

DISHONORABLE
Lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor; "dishonorable in thought and deed"

DISINGENUOUS
Not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness; "an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time"- David Cannadine; "a disingenuous excuse"

DOUBLEMINDED

MEALYMOUTHED
Hesitant to state facts or opinions simply and directly as from e.g. timidity or hypocrisy; "a mealymouthed politician"

PECKSNIFFIAN

SMOOTHSPOKEN

14 letters

CROCODILETEARS
A hypocritical display of sorrow; false or insincere weeping; "the secretaries wept crocodile tears over the manager's dilemma"; "politicians shed crocodile tears over the plight of the unemployed"

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