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Whited sepulchre   Listen
Whited sepulchre

noun
1.
A person who is inwardly evil but outwardly professes to be virtuous.  Synonym: whited sepulcher.





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"Whited sepulchre" Quotes from Famous Books



... but what of wherever you don't go? Along the roadsides, and round the gentlemen's parks, where the cottages are in sight, it's all very smart; but just go into the outlying hamlets—a whited sepulchre, sir, is many a great estate; outwardly swept and garnished, and inwardly full of all ...
— Yeast: A Problem • Charles Kingsley


Words linked to "Whited sepulchre" :   phony, pretender, hypocrite, whited sepulcher, phoney, dissimulator, dissembler


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