whited sepulcher

[ hwahy-tid sep-uhl-ker, wahy‐ ]

noun

1. an evil person who feigns goodness; hypocrite. Matthew 23:27.

Word History and Origins

Origin of whited sepulcher¹

First recorded in 1530–40

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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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