plaster saint
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.48 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Someone who makes a show of being benevolent and morally upright, often in a hypocritical way.
Example Sentences
- "We aren’t no thin red ’eroes, nor we aren’t no blackguards too, But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you; An’ if sometimes our conduck isn’t all your fancy paints, Why, single men in barricks don’t grow into plaster saints;"
- "Of course, I don’t want to make [prison] officers into plaster saints; and they themselves would not want such an absurd depiction."