pharisaic
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This appears nowhere more strikingly than in his dealing with his pharisaic critics.
From The Life of Jesus of Nazareth by Rhees, Rush
Recently our official press has been flooded by authoritative and pharisaic exhortations to soldiers' wives that they must, for God's sake, not complain so much about the scarcity of food.
From The Future Belongs to the People by Liebknecht, Karl Paul August Friedrich
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
It is now also that the silence of James, in reference to that condition which was demanded by those of a pharisaic tendency, gains significance.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm
I know that I've been horrid to you all my life, critical and pharisaic.
From The Fifth Wheel A Novel by Prouty, Olive Higgins
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