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whited sepulchre

/ ˈwaɪtɪd /

noun

  1. a hypocrite


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Word History and Origins

Origin of whited sepulchre1

from Matthew 23:27

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Example Sentences

Ellen Key writes of "all the impurity that the sexual life shuts up within the whited sepulchre of legal marriage."

But hardly had we begun when 'Respectability,' that whited sepulchre full of all uncleanness, rose up against us.

He was a sham, a mockery, a whited sepulchre, and had grossly sinned against the light and against God.

Ho-là, thou whited sepulchre, thinkest thou I will get out and carry thee?

He was called pretender and hypocrite, wolf in sheep's clothing, a whited sepulchre.

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