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Uriah Heep

[ heep ]

noun

  1. 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.

Don't be like Uriah Heep, begging everybody's pardon for taking the liberty of being in the world.

I first saw Uriah Heep on the day my aunt introduced me to Mr. Wickfield's house.

The Cockney voice suggested a mean, back-bent creature with bitten nails and cunning eyes, a Uriah Heep, cringing but sinister.

He had a way of dry-washing the backs of his hands like Uriah Heep.

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