pharisaic
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But she was neither doctrinaire, nor blind, nor pig-headed, nor pharisaic, nor jealous, nor scheming; but wise, brave, truthful, upright, and independent.
From Harriet Martineau by Miller, Florence Fenwick
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
Yet coincidently with this method of his choice he did not hesitate to reply to pharisaic opposition with unqualified self-assertion and exalted personal claim.
From The Life of Jesus of Nazareth by Rhees, Rush
For the radicalism of the time was exclusively, we may say, pharisaic.
From The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks
That he was not following a pharisaic leading appears in the question put to him by the Pharisees, "Why, then, baptizest thou?"
From The Life of Jesus of Nazareth by Rhees, Rush
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