pharisaical
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World democracy, rich and proud and pharisaical, is the camel before the gate of the needle's eye.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is hardly possible to tackle a mistress and convince her of her faults, so Miss Gibbs’s pharisaical tendencies went unchecked.
From The Madcap of the School by Salmon, Balliol
What is prudish, puritanical, fastidious, affected, pharisaical, etc.?
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham
But so also were spiritual pride, narrow-mindedness, fanaticism, gloom, and pharisaical self-righteousness.
From A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor
Ruggles was not a man of the world in any sense; he was simple and Puritan in his judgments, and his gentle nature and his big heart kept him from pharisaical and strenuous 121 measures.
From The Girl From His Town by Vorst, Marie Van
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