Usually means: Sanctimonious person, hypocritically affecting morality.
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▸ noun:  A very hypocritical person.

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Peck's bad boy, tartuffe, dogberry, pillar-biter, Captain Queeg, pettyfogger, pickthank, Polonius, snudge, sneaky Pete, more...

Opposite:
hypocrite, phony, fraud, impostor

Adjectives:
youngest, old, great, sweet, moral, hypocritical, eldest, placid, worthy, idle, beautiful

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Similar:
Peck's bad boy, tartuffe, dogberry, pillar-biter, Captain Queeg, pettyfogger, pickthank, Polonius, snudge, sneaky Pete, more...

Opposite:
hypocrite, phony, fraud, impostor

Adjectives:
youngest, old, great, sweet, moral, hypocritical, eldest, placid, worthy, idle, beautiful



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