pharisee
Example Sentences
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The self-applauding bird, the peacock see:— Mark what a sumptuous pharisee is he!
From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by William Hazlitt
The reader may recollect the parable of the pharisee and the publican.
From Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published by Maria Monk
In the scene with Lady Milford she appears as a pert little pharisee, caustic, sententious and philosophical beyond her years; so that one wonders why a girl that knows so much should not know more.
From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Calvin Thomas
Gordon chanced to come in that day and light upon Ernest, and the fury into which he worked himself ill beseemed so respectable a pharisee.
From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida
He, too, had taken the part of the lowly and oppressed, and against all the established power of priest and pharisee.
From The Iron Heel by Jack London
