Dictionary entry

Hypocrisy

Pronunciation: /hɪˈpɒkrɪsi/

Pronunciation

/hɪˈpɒkrɪsi/

Myanmar Meaning

(n) သူတော်ကောင်းယောင်ဆောင်ခြင်း။စေတနာကောင်းထားဟန်ဆောင်ခြင်း။

Definition

hypocrisy /hÇ'pɒkrǝsi/ n [U, C] သူေတာ္ေကာင္းဟန္ ေဆာင္ျခင္း။ လူေကာင္းေယာင္ေဆာင္ျခင္း။ accuse sb of gross hypocrisy ❍ This concern of his for the homeless smacks of hypocrisy. ❏ hypocrite /'hÇpǝkrÇt/ n ( derog ) ေၾကာင္သူေတာ္။ သီလ ေၾကာင္။ You're just a bunch of hypocrites! ❏ hypocritical /hÇpǝ'krÇtÇkl/ adj ေၾကာင္သူေတာ္။ သီလ ေၾကာင္။ I never liked my brother and it would be hypocritical of me to pretend otherwise. ❏ hypocritically /-kli/ adv သူေတာ္ေကာင္းဟန္ေဆာင္လ်က္။

Examples

  1. There is a degree of hypocrisy in expressing outrage at environmental disasters while doing nothing to prevent them.