pharisaic

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A majority of American Jews today are unaffiliated with the synagogues the Pharisaic rabbis emphasized, and yet 79 percent report feeling "very positive" about being Jewish.

From Slate • Nov. 9, 2012

Promptly, John Hyrcanus switched his favor to the pro-Hellenistic Sadducees and the Pharisaic observances were forbidden.

From Time Magazine Archive

She has with Pharisaic scrupulosity taken four eggs and no more, and two cups of sugar, and two teaspoonfuls of sifted flour, and a pinch of baking powder, and a small teacupful of hot water.

From By the Christmas Fire by Crothers, Samuel McChord

Pharaoh, 55 Pharisaic and Pharisees, 12, 20, 189, 233 f.,

From Jewish Theology by Kohler, Kaufmann

We in England have no right to be Pharisaic at the expense of the Americans in this matter; for we have tried the same trick in a hundred forms.

From What I Saw in America by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)