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whited sepulcher

[ hwahy-tid sep-uhl-ker, wahy ]

noun

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


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of whited sepulcher1

First recorded in 1530–40
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There are too many whited sepulchers, moneychangers in the temple, casters of first stones in this current Republican power elite.

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“He is a hypocrite and a whited sepulcher!”

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The information came first to Edward Lamb, through the inquiries of a commercial rating company, that their Boston capitalist was a whited sepulcher, so far as capital went.

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If the beauty of the fever coast is that of a whited sepulcher, it is a sufficiently alluring region, and Dom Pedro's factory stood high and healthily upon the summit of a bluff.

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Certainly it was a case of "whited sepulcher."

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