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Uriah Heep
[ heep ]
noun
- the hypocritical and villainous clerk in Dickens' David Copperfield.
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Example Sentences
But humility is not all; Uriah Heep had that and still was a most undesirable person, and so she must read on, all recipiency.
From Project Gutenberg
Don't be like Uriah Heep, begging everybody's pardon for taking the liberty of being in the world.
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I first saw Uriah Heep on the day my aunt introduced me to Mr. Wickfield's house.
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The Cockney voice suggested a mean, back-bent creature with bitten nails and cunning eyes, a Uriah Heep, cringing but sinister.
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He had a way of dry-washing the backs of his hands like Uriah Heep.
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