pharisaic
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What if chickens gaggle, pharisaic goats piously turn up their eyes, and the dear little piggies grunt!
From Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature by Goldman, Emma
Ah—what hitherto hidden spots of self-conceit, vanity, pharisaic pride, that bitter trial laid bare, or seemed to lay, till she learned to thank her unseen Guide even for it!
From Two Years Ago, Volume II. by Kingsley, Charles
The very Neo-Platonists of Alexandria, while they derided the Christian asceticism, found themselves forced to affect, like the hapless Hypatia, a sentimental and pharisaic asceticism of their own.
From The Hermits by Kingsley, Charles
In the man looking down on Marsham not a tinge of pharisaic condemnation mingled with the strange clearness of his judgment.
From The Testing of Diana Mallory by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
To appear well in the opinion of others was the aim of pharisaic conduct.
From Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics by Alexander, Archibald B. C.
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