Uriah Heep (ur-AYAH heep) noun

   A hypocritical person.

[After Uria Heep, a character in Charles Dickens' David Copperfield.]

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   "This affair shows the accounting profession all too often to be in bed
   with the oldest profession. Accounting standards have been frequently
   prostituted by the new Uriah Heeps: these are executives in ever-merging
   firms afraid to challenge their clients' phony numbers and secret
   self-dealing because they might lose fees in the lucrative consulting
   business they run on the side."
   William Safire, Where's Scandal in Enron? The New York Times,
   Jan 14, 2002.

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They are words derived from people, real and fictional, from history and
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