N. deceiver &c (deceive ), dissembler, hypocrite, sophist, pharisee, jesuit, mawworm, pecksniff, joseph surface, tartufe, janus, serpent, snake in the grass, cockatrice, judas, wolf in sheep's clothing, jilt, shuffler|, stool pigeon, liar &c (lie ), story-teller, perjurer, false witness, menteur a triple etage, scapin, bunko steerer*, carpetbagger*, capper*, faker, fraud, four flusher*, horse coper, ringer*, spieler, straw bidder, imposter, pretender, soi-disant, humbug, adventurer, cagliostro, fernam mendez pinto, ass in lion's skin, actor, quack, charlatan, mountebank, saltimbanco, saltimbanque, empiric, quacksalver, medicaster, rosicrucian, gypsy, man of straw, conjuror, juggler, trickster, prestidigitator, jockey, crimp, decoy, decoy duck, rogue, knave, cheat, swindler, jobber

Phr. "saint abroad and a devil at home"

N. impiety, sin, irreverence, profaneness, profanity, profanation, blasphemy, desecration, sacrilege, scoffing, hypocrisy, pietism, cant, pious fraud, lip devotion, lip service, lip reverence, misdevotion, formalism, austerity, sanctimony, sanctimoniousness, pharisaism, precisianism, sabbatism, sabbatarianism, odium theologicum, sacerdotalism, bigotry, (prejudice) 481, blue laws, hardening, backsliding, declension, perversion, reprobation, sinner, scoffer, blasphemer, sacrilegist, sabbath breaker, worldling, hypocrite, tartufe, mawworm, bigot, saint, pharisee, sabbatarian, formalist, methodist, puritan, pietist, precisian, religionist, devotee, ranter, fanatic, juramentado, the wicked, the evil, the unjust, the reprobate, sons of men, sons of belial, the wicked one, children of darkness

V. be impious, profane, desecrate, blaspheme, revile, scoff, swear, commit sacrilege, snuffle, turn up the whites of the eyes, idolize

Adj. impious, irreligious, desecrating, profane, irreverent, sacrilegious, blasphemous, un-hallowed, un-sanctified, un-regenerate, hardened, perverted, reprobate, hypocritical, canting, pietistical, sanctimonious, unctuous, pharisaical, overrighteous, righteous over much, bigoted, fanatical, priest-ridden

Adv. under the mask of religion, under the cloak of religion, under the pretense of religion, under the form of religion, under the guise of religion

Phr. giovane santo diavolo vecchio