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
Hate witnesses only a false love; sin, a pharisaical righteousness.
From The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker by Lloyd, Alfred H.
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
Along about this time I developed the pharisaical stage.
From Cutting It Out How to get on the waterwagon and stay there by Blythe, Samuel G. (Samuel George)
Yet it is scarcely to be supposed that in everyday Jewish life the pharisaical maxims quoted above were adhered to with any great degree of strictness.
From Women of Early Christianity by Brittain, Alfred
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