ummm...that would be people that go to Church on Sunday and live "like the devil" the other 6 days! +5

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hypocrite +5

kay (my daughters b/f)lol

not practicing what you preach....or condemning others when you too are at fault.....not meaning what you say....not doing what totally what you 'stand for'...self righteous bigotry....

People who go to Church on Sunday and bad mouth everyone the other six days of the week. Politicians who tell you how to live your life and they have a mistress.

hypocrite (plural hypocrites) 1. Someone who practices hypocrisy. English [edit] Etymology From Middle English ipocrisie < Old French ypocrisie < Late Latin hypocrisis < Ancient Greek ὑπÏŒκρισις (hupokrisis), “‘answer, stage acting, pretense’”) < ὑποκρίνομαι (hupokrinomai), “‘I reply’”) < ὑπÏŒ (hupo), “‘under’”) + the middle voice of κρίνω (krinō), “‘I separate, judge, decide’”). [edit] Noun Wikipedia has an article on: Hypocrisy Singular hypocrisy Plural hypocrisies hypocrisy (plural hypocrisies) 1. The claim or pretense of holding beliefs, feelings, standards, qualities, opinions or virtues that one does not actually possess. Hypocrisy is the act of pretending to have beliefs, opinions, virtues, feelings, qualities, or standards that one does not actually have. Hypocrisy is thus a kind of lie. Hypocrisy may come from a desire to hide from others actual motives or feelings. Hypocrisy is not simply an inconsistency between what is advocated and what is done. Samuel Johnson made this point when he wrote about the misuse of the charge of "hypocrisy" in Rambler No. 14: Nothing is more unjust, however common, than to charge with hypocrisy him that expresses zeal for those virtues which he neglects to practice; since he may be sincerely convinced of the advantages of conquering his passions, without having yet obtained the victory, as a man may be confident of the advantages of a voyage, or a journey, without having courage or industry to undertake it, and may honestly recommend to others, those attempts which he neglects himself.[1] Contents [hide] * 1 Etymology * 2 Common fallacies * 3 Hypocrisy and vice * 4 See also * 5 References [edit] Etymology The word hypocrisy comes from the Greek ὑπÏŒκρισις (hypokrisis), which means "play-acting", "acting out", "feigning" or "dissembling"[2]. The word hypocrite is from the Greek word ὑποκρίτης (hypokrites), the agentive noun associated with υποκρίνομαι (hypokrinomai), i.e. "I play a part." Both derive from the verb κρίνω, "judge" (»κρίση, "judgement" »κριτική (kritiki), "critics") presumably because the performance of a dramatic text by an actor was to involve a degree of interpretation, or assessment, of that text. The word is an amalgam of the Greek prefix hypo-, meaning "under", and the verb "krinein", meaning "to sift or decide". Thus the original meaning implied a deficiency in the ability to sift or decide. This deficiency, as it pertains to one's own beliefs and feelings, informs the word's contemporary meaning[3]. Whereas hypokrisis applied to any sort of public performance (including the art of rhetoric), hypokrites was a technical term for a stage actor and was not considered an appropriate role for a public figure. In Athens in the 4th Century BC, for example, the great orator Demosthenes ridiculed his rival Aeschines, who had been a successful actor before taking up politics, as a hypokrites whose skill at impersonating characters on stage made him an untrustworthy politician. This negative view of the hypokrites, perhaps combined with the Roman disdain for actors, later shaded into the originally neutral hypokrisis. It is this later sense of hypokrisis as "play-acting," i.e. the assumption of a counterfeit persona, that gives the modern word hypocrisy its negative connotation. [edit] Common fallacies * It is a common fallacy (see List of fallacies) to—in an ad hominem attack—accuse someone of being a hypocrite in an attempt to invalidate their argument. In other words, just because someone is a hypocrite, that does not make them wrong. * It is also common for children to employ this type of ad hominem attack against their parents. For example, children may accuse their parents of hypocrisy if the parent admonishes them for using drugs or smoking, or warning them of the dangers of such activities, if the parent used them in the past. * Notwithstanding, while hypocrisy does not refute truth, it is valid to hold that hypocrisy can place truth within a given context. * A medical board that consists of smokers who refuse to hire a medical candidate on the grounds that the candidate is a smoker is guilty of inconsistent norms, but not necessarily hypocrisy. In this case a norm has been established that smokers can become doctors. For example, the fact that a doctor smokes doesn't make that doctor wrong when they advise a patient that smoking is dangerous. Also, a doctor who truly believes smoking is dangerous yet smokes is not a hypocrite simply for practicing dangerous behavior. Instead, to accurately label as hypocrite a smoking doctor who advises patients that smoking is dangerous, the doctor would have to actually believe smoking is not dangerous. [edit] Hypocrisy and vice Although hypocrisy has been called "the tribute that vice pays to virtue,"[4] and a bit of it certainly greases the wheels of social exchange, it may also corrode the well-being of those people who are continually forced to make use of it.[5] As Boris Pasternak has Yurii say in Doctor Zhivago, "Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike... Our nervous system isn't just fiction, it's part of our physical body, and it can't be forever violated with impunity."

It's someone who picks their nose and then complains when someone else does it. Just transpose anything to that concept and you have hypocrites all around you. Hard to ignore sometimes.

Saying one thing and then doing the exact opposite.

hypo -> under -> beneath crit -> from critical as in critical thinking; pretense of thinking; -------> someone who has not given the subject enough reflection or critical thought

I believe that is the person who says, "Do as I say, not as I do."

A hypocrite is someone who has the gall to claim you're cruel for causing a chicken death when you have one for dinner, but fails to acknowledge the lives of bugs that they killed when they washed that organic lettuce.

you say one thing and do something else that is totally opposite of what you say. you can talk the talk but not walk the walk, comes to mind. +5

The used car Salesman who sold me a Ford. I took it back two days later and asked how much? I said it's in showroom condition. He said, lady! I wouldn't have that in my showroom, but I'll scrap it for you.

When someone tells you that it's wrong to do something that they are doing themselves.

Hypocrite means basically preaching;"Don't do as I DO, do as I SAY!" As in Al Gore preaching about how we all need to stop "Global Warming" by cutting back on our wasting of natural resources, while just ONE of his mansions uses over TEN TIMES the energy of the average American home, while he jets around the world in a private jet to do this preaching and rides around in stretch limos while suggesting the rest of us ought to carpool and use mass transit. Or the late Sen. Ted Kennedy who was supposed to be such a "steward of the Earth" yet shot down the chance to build state-of-the-art windmills in the ocean that could've generated enough power to light up all of Massachusetts, but didn't like the "eyesore" of what'd look like toothpicks, at best, from the Kennedy compound. Or perhaps it was cuz he might've been inclined to drunkenly driven his yacht into one the way he drove MaryJo into the Chappaquiddick?

Someone who does not live up to what he/she supposedly believes in. In other words they lie about how they live their lives. Sad but true.

Doing the opposite of what you tell others to do