Read full poem →An art by which you finelier cheat ?
Hypocrite, witches, hence avaunt,
Who, though in prison, yet enchant !
Dictionary Entry
Someone who practices hypocrisy, who pretends to hold beliefs, or whose actions are not consistent with their claimed beliefs.
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Poetry examples for “hypocrite”
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Read full poem →An .art by which you finelier cheat ?
Hypocrite- witches, hence avaunt.
Who, though in prison, yet inchant !
Read full poem →{14} “A Puritan is a Heretical Hypocrite, in whom the conceit of his own
perspicacity, by which he seems to himself to have observed certain
Read full poem →It all comes of the foolish fright
Men feel at the word, hypocrite.
Although, when first in love, sometimes
Read full poem →Truth for the truthful and true, and a lie for the liar if need be--
A board out of plumb for a place out of plumb, for the hypocrite flashes
Of lightning or rods red hot for thrusting in tortuous places.
Read full poem →To flourish, to find words, and to attend:
Liar, physician, hypocrite, and friend,
I watched him; and the sight was not so fair
Read full poem →Your round me roaming end, and under be my boughs?
When, when, Peace, will you, Peace? I'll not play hypocrite
To own my heart: I yield you do come sometimes; but
Read full poem →One keeps the heart-bred villain full in sight,
The other cants and acts the hypocrite,
Smoothing the deed where law sharks set their gin
Read full poem →the hypocrite with his greasy smile penning his
Read full poem →O how wise are his discourses!
But he is the arch-hypocrite,
And, through all science and all art,