Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A hypocrite, especially one who affects religious piety.
Wiktionary
- n. A religious hypocrite
Etymologies
- French, from the protagonist Tartuffe in the play of the same name by Molière (Wiktionary)
- After the protagonist of Tartuffe, a play by Molière. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Le tartuffe oubliait aussi de signaler la guerre de Sécession [1861-1865] [1.5 millions de morts ?]”
“Tartuffe, the question: "Et tartuffe?" repeated every few moments, affords us the distinct sensation of a spring being released.”
“Cervantes has given us ‘quixotic’; Swift ‘lilliputian’; to Molière the French language owes ‘tartuffe’ and ‘tartufferie’.”
“She had a recipe for chocolate tartuffe that conductors would request in advance.”
“2J'ai déjà entendu , il y a peu , un "Austrian Economist" de chez nous s'horrifier comme vous de la Vendée 130 000 morts au plus , ce tartuffe qui faisait l'apologie de la douce Révolution US "omettait" de signaler le génocide concomitant de 30 millions d'Indien.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tartuffe’.
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250 Extra Spelling Words
Some more words for intermediate and advanced spellers.
cultellarius, barouche, palanquin, badelaire, cavetto, tregetour, tergiversate, rhododendron, rhadamanthine, thyrsus, cappelletti, bradycardia and 238 more...
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Not edible
Things that sound edible but are not (usually). See Liberty's To Eat, or Not to Eat? for more diet food.
cinnabar, dulcimer, belfries, potto, maltha, grapple, loam, rake, tort, pomade, buffalo chip, wedgie and 172 more...
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Whatevah
Stuff that's not categorized yet, because I don't have a category for it, or (more likely) because I'm lazy.
importunate, hector, extirpate, cicatrice, dysgraphia, tarradiddle, tartuffe, tinctorial, swallow-pipe, stownlins, posse comitatus, insightful and 1 more...
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Occult / Religious
evangelism, exorcism, fideism, Gnosticism, Hasidism, Hebraism, henotheism, hylotheism, idolism, indifferentism, infralapsarianism, ipsedixitism and 107 more...
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Tolland's list
Those I've come across and try to keep fresh within my mind.
clandestine, dysphoric, indictive, vigil, fractious, assiduous, indefatigable, ubiquitous, insidious, paroicous, aplomb, sangfroid and 654 more...
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What David Foster Wallace circled in ...
ablative, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, ailanthus, aleatory, alfresco, algolagnia and 474 more...
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What David Foster Wallace Circled in ...
http://www.slate.com/id/2250784/
ablative absolute, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, aleatory, ailanthus, alfresco, algolagnia and 482 more...
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technomom's Words
misology, sacerdotal, omphaloskepsis, jimjams, incunabulum, repose, trecento, chimera, tridecennary, tenebrous, purblind, floruit and 207 more...
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Vocab
prurient, salient, inextricable, moribund, rarified, mawkish, ignominy, lummox, pedantic, censure, adjunct, sirocco and 31 more...
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words I learnt from freerice.com
Freerice.com allows you to donate rice to needy countries while also playing a word game that's actually decently challenging. Wordies ought to love this game just for the words you'll learn. Lots ...
lacustrine, recondite, tergiversate, verticil, azoth, videlicet, sinciput, valetudinarian, verecund, curvet, vaticination, slumgullion and 4 more...
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kpaintin's Words
meretricious, miscegenation, farrago, atavistic, preternatural, discombobulate, ratiocination, eleemosynary, animadversion, palimpsest, crepuscular, obloquy and 50 more...
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it is not truth that matters, but vic...
every kind of liar.
prevaricator, falsifier, fabricator, perjurer, fabulist, fibber, hypocrite, tartuffe, pharisee, phony, charlatan, traitor and 13 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for tartuffe.
reesetee Ha! Well, as you said on the merch page, Google got pwned. Oct 31, 2007
uselessness Okay, I'm back. Lots of Google hits. Guess my college wasn't as clever as it purported to be. But y'all will be happy to know that the fifth search result is the Wordie page. :-P Oct 31, 2007
uselessness I have no idea who Eilonwy is in real life, but I wasn't personally in the college theatre group... I meant, rather, the theatre group of the college which I attended. And I watched them perform Tartuffe. I did have a friend who was in that show. Perhaps Eilonwy is my friend? Alas, s/he seems to have moved on from Wordie and I may never find out...
Nevertheless, I am going to Google Tartuffified and see what I can see. Oct 31, 2007
john Maybe your college made it up, and it caught on, eh? Oct 30, 2007
reesetee Wait! Maybe you know Eilonwy and you're from the same college theatre group! Oct 30, 2007
uselessness Funny play. My college theatre group did a (modernized, I think) run of it and promoted it with fliers emblazoned with with "Get Tartuffified!" across the top.
Edit: I am surprised to see that my linked word above is already listed, which leads me to believe my college didn't, in fact, make it up. I am crestfallen. Oct 30, 2007
TechnoMom a religious hypocrite. Named after the protagonist in Molière's play Tartuffe (1686). Oct 30, 2007