WHITED SEPULCHRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does whited sepulchre mean? 

• WHITED SEPULCHRE (noun)
  The noun WHITED SEPULCHRE has 1 sense:

1. a person who is inwardly evil but outwardly professes to be virtuous

  Familiarity information: WHITED SEPULCHRE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHITED SEPULCHRE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who is inwardly evil but outwardly professes to be virtuous

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

whited sepulcher; whited sepulchre

Hypernyms ("whited sepulchre" is a kind of...):

dissembler; dissimulator; hypocrite; phoney; phony; pretender (a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives)

 Context examples 

One instant he was astride a broncho and flying through the fairy-colored Painted Desert country; the next instant he was gazing down through shimmering heat into the whited sepulchre of Death Valley, or pulling an oar on a freezing ocean where great ice islands towered and glistened in the sun.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)