Unscramble

h 4 y 4 p 3 o 1 c 3 r 1 i 1 t 1 e 1

9 letters · 19 points in Scrabble

Meaning

noun 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

originFrom Old French ypocrite (Modern French hypocrite), from Latin hypocrita, from Ancient Greek ὑποκριτής (hupokritḗs, “actor, hypocrite”), from ὑποκρίνομαι (hupokrínomai, “to answer, act, feign”). Displaced native Old English līċettere.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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