The Human Being - Hypocrisy Flashcards

(56 cards)

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dissimuler

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to dissemble

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feindre de

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to feign / to sham

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faire semblant

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to pretend

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4
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un faux-semblant

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a pretence

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5
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dissimuler / cacher

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to conceal / to hide

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déformer

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to twist

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7
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un escroc

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a twister

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louche

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shady

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douteux

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dubious

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sournois

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devious / underhand

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11
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subrepticement

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surreptitiously

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12
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chachottier

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secretive

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13
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taire qqch

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to hush up sth

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astucieux

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artful

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mensonger

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mendacious

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la ruse

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wile / craft

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rusé

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wily

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malin

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crafty

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avec tuse

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slyly (slaili)

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en cachette, en douce

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on the sly

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21
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furtif

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stealthy

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22
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un manipulateur

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a schemer

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des intrigues

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manipuler

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double jeu
double-dealing
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berner / duper
to fool / to dupe
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induire en erreur
to mislead
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trompeur
misleading
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tromper
to deceive
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l'aveuglement sur soi-même
self-deception
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dire un mensonge
to tell lies
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un mensonge pieux
a white lie
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un bobard
a fib
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un baratineur
a smooth talker
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un charlatant
a charlatan
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un imposteur
a fraud
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une supercherie
a fraud / a sham
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un imposteur | l'imposture
an impostor | imposture
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trahir | une trahison
to betray | a betrayal
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un traître | une traîtresse
a traitor | a traitress
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une trahison, la trahison
a treason
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doubler qqn
to double-cross sby
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se faire passer pour
to pass oneself off as
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un canular
a hoax
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arnaquer | une arnaque
to rip off | a rip-off
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feindre la surprise
to feign surprise
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un mensonge éhonté
a barefaced lie / a shameless lie
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un mensonge flagrant
a blatant lie
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un mensonge évident
a downright lie
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un mensonge inutile
a pointless lie
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un tissu de mensonges
a web of lies
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un menteur invétéré
an inveterate / compulsive liar
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un menteur-né
a born liar
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inventer une histoire
to make up a story
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grossir les faits
to blow up the facts
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c'est un secret de polichinelle que...
it's an open secret that