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pharisaical

ADJECTIVE

hypocritical

Synonyms

WEAK

Pecksniffian affected artificial assuming bland canting captious caviling deceptive deluding dissembling double double-dealing duplicitous faithless false feigning fishy fraudulent glib hollow insincere jivey left-handed lying moralistic oily pharisaic phony pietistic pious sanctimonious self-righteous smooth smooth-spoken smooth-tongued snide specious spurious two-faced unctuous unnatural unreliable

Example Sentences

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World democracy, rich and proud and pharisaical, is the camel before the gate of the needle's eye.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is hardly possible to tackle a mistress and convince her of her faults, so Miss Gibbs’s pharisaical tendencies went unchecked.

From The Madcap of the School by Salmon, Balliol

Neither was there any pharisaical self-exaltation on the part of the rival.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. by Various

Russell, he said, had spread broadcast phylacteries, and used his most pharisaical language.

From Sketches in the House (1893) by O'Conner, T. P.

Yet it is scarcely to be supposed that in everyday Jewish life the pharisaical maxims quoted above were adhered to with any great degree of strictness.

From Women of Early Christianity by Brittain, Alfred

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