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Whited sepulchre

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who is outwardly attractive, but unclean or vile on the inside; a hypocrite.
  2. 2
    a person who is inwardly evil but outwardly professes to be virtuous wordnet

Etymology

An allusion to Matthew 23:27 in the Bible. From Ancient Greek τάφος κεκονιαμένος (táphos kekoniaménos, “plastered tomb, hypocrite”).

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