pharisaism

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Such frankness tends to destroy "sympathetic interest," to make delusion and illusion impossible; it gives cynicism and his brother, pharisaism, their opportunity to simper and to sneer.

From The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel by Phillips, David Graham

There came from the doorway a girl who was lifted above the pharisaism of clothes into the purer ether.

From Jewel Weed by Fisher, Harrison

To do the former, and not to do the latter, is pharisaism and hypocrisy, whereas the latter includes the former.

From The Way of Peace by Allen, James

The law of force is honest paganism, but this covering up of the world's foulness with scum—that is nauseating pharisaism.

From Victory out of Ruin by Maclean, Norman

There was a blaze of brutal pharisaism that put a bar-sinister across any claim to gentlemanliness on the part of the majority.

From Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View by Collier, Price