Brewer's: Sunday Saint

One who observes the ordinances of religion, and goes to church on a Sunday, but is worldly, grasping, indifferently honest, and not “too moral” the following six days.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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