pharisee

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God was pleased with the publican, because he confessed his sins honestly; but he was displeased with the pharisee, because he came boasting of his good deeds.”

From Caleb in the Country by Abbott, Jacob

His father was a Jew, a pharisee, and a man of respectable social position.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 02 Jewish Heroes and Prophets by Lord, John

"That's all very well, Micky," Dick had replied with a remonstrating bellow of a laugh, "but I'm not enough of a pharisee for that, you know, for I'm no total abstainer myself."

From The Lash by Lyman, Olin L.

There was Rogers puffed out with pride; Christy, pharisee and humbug, superbly satisfied with himself.

From The Loom of Youth by Waugh, Alec

But the attempt was fruitless: he succeeded no better in curing a dropsical person that chanced to be in the house of a pharisee who gave the Saviour a dinner.

From Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels by Holbach, Paul Henry Thiry Baron d'