How to say "hypocritical" in Japanese

• 偽善的ぎぜんてき
  na-adjectiveA less common but direct equivalent: describes a person, attitude, or statement that professes moral standards the person does not actually follow, as in calling a politician's stance hypocritical when their conduct contradicts it.
• 空々しいそらぞらしい
  i-adjectiveCovers the sense of hypocrisy that is transparent to others: an act, smile, or apology that rings hollow and is plainly insincere. A less common choice, really 'transparently false' rather than 'hypocritical' as such.
  彼女かのじょの口振くちぶりはいかにもそらぞらしい。↗

  She talks too aloofly.

Use 偽善的 for the direct sense of professing morals one does not practice; use 「空々しい」 when an act or remark strikes you as transparently, hollowly insincere; both are relatively uncommon choices.

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• 偽善的ぎぜんてきhypocritical
• 空々しいそらぞらしいfalse