"A social spoon of polished gilt, in whom it is only possible to discern distorted reflections of the truth."
"One who wears virtue's livery for the sake of her wages, without any intention of doing her work."
"One who assumes what he has not; a showman who by a startling outside picture screens the barrenness of the entertainment within."
"Like a sugar-coated pill, he seeks to hide his true character under an artificial coating."
Again, as a contrast, take Hero as the selected word to be defined—
"One whose law is love; whose master, duty; whose armour, courage, faith, and hope; and who seeks not glory."
"A victor over Self—the hardest and the noblest conquest of all, but one for which the world has no laurel wreath."
"A nobleman of Nature, who has seized his opportunities and displayed the attributes of his race."
"The true hero is the champion of truth, the servant of right, the ruler of himself, and the sworn foe of all that is ignoble."