| 单词 | plaster saint |
| 释义 | > as lemmasplaster saint plaster saint n. freq. derogatory a person who makes a show of being without moral faults or human weakness, esp. in a hypocritical way. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > [noun] > virtuous or morally excellent person angel1477 moralist1606 virtuosa1652 saint1852 seraph1853 plaster saint1890 good guy1928 society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > sanctimoniousness > [noun] > person Pharisee1539 card gospeller1550 lip-gospeller?1556 saint1563 table-gospeller1570 separatist1620 Christera1650 canter1652 high-liver1715 cant1725 pietist1767 devil dodger1791 goody1816 creeping Jesusc1818 Mawworm1825 goody-two-shoes1843 Pecksniff1844 goody-goody1872 goody-good1879 lip-Christian1882 plaster saint1890 holy Willie1916 1890 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads (1892) 8 Single men in barricks [sic] don't grow into plaster saints. 1898 G. B. Shaw Philanderer iv, in Plays Unpleasant 148 You fraud! You humbug! You miserable little plaster saint! 1980 Chinweizu et al. in D. Walder Lit. in Mod. World (1990) 286 Were our ancestors a parade of plaster saints who never, among themselves, struck a blow or hurt a fly? 1995 Denver Post 15 Jan. e8/2 Clarke's book..presents her as a profoundly complex human being, infinitely more fascinating than any plaster saint or media-manufactured martyr. < as lemmas |
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