hypocrisy
意味
- 偽善;偽善的行為
例文
We tend to associate politicians with hypocrisy.
私たちは政治家というと偽善を連想しがちだ。
Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.
偽善とは悪徳が徳に対して払う忠順の誓いである。
They dismissed his criticism as hypocrisy.
彼らは彼の批判を偽善であるとして退けた。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From hypo- + Ancient Greek κρί(σις) (krí(sis)) + -isy. From Middle English ipocrisie, from Old French ypocrisie, from Late Latin hypocrisis, from Ancient Greek ὑπόκρισις (hupókrisis, “answer, stage acting, pretense”), from ὑποκρίνομαι (hupokrínomai, “I answer (a fellow actor on stage), play a part, dissemble, feign”), from ὑπό (hupó, “under, equivalent of the modern "hypo-" prefix”) + the middle voice of κρίνω (krínō, “I separate, judge, decide”) + -isy. Displaced native Old English līċettung.
辞書順で近い単語
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