Describe Her

[happypurinsu]

Hello peeps, I hope you can help me with a little thing... it's for a fantasy thriller I'm currently working on, set in modern day (post-2010), where a woman 'sins' enough to unleash the verbal wrath of a certain type of spirits (not ghosts in traditional sense) that knows the truth of humans' personalities and their life stories. Their purpose is

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[whswhs]

Well, a very old word for this character flaw is "hypocrisy." And I believe this is the sort of person Jesus had in mind when he used the metaphor of "whited sepulchres," that is, tombs with a coat of whitewash.

[happypurinsu]

Hypocrisy, definitely. Never heard about "whited sepulchres" before though? So thanks!

[whswhs]

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. (Matthew 23:27)

German

[dalaruan]

Falsche Schlange (= "snake in the grass")