tartuffism

tartuffism
\\ ̷ ̷ˈ ̷ ̷ˌizəm\ noun (-s)
Usage: usually capitalized

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Tartuffˈism or Tartufˈism noun
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Main Entry:Tartuffe

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  • tartuffism — tar·tuf·fism …   English syllables

  • English vice — noun a) Hypocrisy. If hypocrisy was the English vice, as the French critic Taine declared, then it had soon become naturalized in the United States. b) Vacuous, base, and tedious moralism. No new thought, nothing of the nature of a finer turning… …   Wiktionary

  • cant — Synonyms and related words: Aesopian language, Babel, Greek, L, Pecksniffery, Tartuffery, Tartuffism, about ship, affectation, affectedness, alert, angle, angularity, animate, animated, apex, argot, ascend, babble, back and fill, bank, be… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • falseness — Synonyms and related words: Machiavellianism, Prospero, Punic faith, Tartuffery, Tartuffism, aberrancy, aberration, affectation, airiness, ambidexterity, apostasy, appearance, artfulness, artifice, bad faith, bamboozlement, barratry, befooling,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • hypocrisy — Synonyms and related words: Pecksniffery, Pharisaism, Tartuffery, Tartuffism, affectation, affectedness, airs, airs and graces, artfulness, artificiality, cant, casuistry, charlatanism, charlatanry, chicanery, craft, cunning, deceit,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • insincerity — Synonyms and related words: Tartuffery, Tartuffism, affectation, affectedness, airs, airs and graces, apparent soundness, artfulness, artificiality, cant, casuistry, circularity, craftiness, credibility gap, crossed fingers, deceitfulness,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • lip service — Synonyms and related words: BOMFOG, Pecksniffery, Tartuffery, Tartuffism, cant, empty gesture, false piety, formalism, hypocrisy, hypocriticalness, lip devotion, lip homage, lip praise, lip reverence, lip worship, mealymouthedness, mouth honor,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • mouthing — Synonyms and related words: Pecksniffery, Tartuffery, Tartuffism, cant, drone, droning, empty gesture, face, false piety, gabble, gibber, gibbering, grimace, hypocrisy, hypocriticalness, jabber, jibber, lip service, maundering, mealymouthedness,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • mummery — Synonyms and related words: Pecksniffery, Tartuffery, Tartuffism, abracadabra, acting, affectation, baccalaureate service, buffoonery, business, camouflage, cant, celebration, ceremonial, ceremony, characterization, commencement, convocation,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • piety — Synonyms and related words: Tartuffery, Tartuffism, affectation, affection, allegiance, ardor, cant, dedication, deference, devotedness, devotion, devoutness, docility, dutifulness, enthusiasm, faithfulness, false piety, falseness, fealty, fervor …   Moby Thesaurus

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