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
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
"Good-bye," I said, with a recurrence to my smirk of pharisaical pity, "I am sorry to see you here."
From Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature by Goldman, Emma
Was there nothing pharisaical in the temper of this welcome?
From Discipline by Brunton, Mary
Clancy sensed the slow fermentation of the pharisaical mind.
From The Bartlett Mystery by Tracy, Louis
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