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whited sepulcher
[ hwahy-tid sep-uhl-ker, wahy‐ ]
noun
- an evil person who feigns goodness; hypocrite. Matthew 23:27.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of whited sepulcher1
First recorded in 1530–40
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Example Sentences
Michael Lewis is out with his newest book on the whited sepulcher that is Wall Street.
From The Daily Beast
How Horace Endicott had raved over this whited sepulcher five years ago, believed in her, sworn by her virtue and truth!
From Project Gutenberg
The instincts of her girlhood, surviving, made a whited sepulcher of her present life.
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It was an exceedingly beautiful box—a regular whited sepulcher of a box.
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They whose society you seek will flee you as a whited sepulcher, whose darksome depths repel every glance.
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