pharisaism

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Here she stopped short in the full swing of pharisaism, smiled at herself in dismal self- mockery.

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

There has been a great deal of what I have called philosophic pharisaism.

From Progress and History by Marvin, Francis Sydney

Define meritricious; prognathic; banal; vulpine; camaraderie; vilification; ennui; quixotic; naïve; pharisaism.

From Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day by Heydrick, Benjamin A.

There is at least no superiority in their outlook, no pharisaism.

From Change in the Village by Sturt, George

He was a sublime, almost a diabolical opportunist I have often thought Benjamin Franklin, with his "honesty is the best policy," is another Machiavelli, only touched a little with the pharisaism of the Puritan.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by Brann, William Cowper