whited sepulchre

1. 1.

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

   Synonymswhited sepulcher

   Broaderhypocrite

Questions about whited sepulchre

What does whited sepulchre mean?

whited sepulchre means "a person who is inwardly evil but outwardly professes to be virtuous".

What is another word for whited sepulchre?

Close synonyms include whited sepulcher. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is whited sepulchre a common word?

whited sepulchre is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.