pharisaic
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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
This appears nowhere more strikingly than in his dealing with his pharisaic critics.
From The Life of Jesus of Nazareth by Rhees, Rush
When he thought how Payson had drawn his pistol on trusting, unsuspecting Dick Lane in the garden, he was filled with the same pharisaic self-righteousness that inflated Bud when comparing himself with McKee.
From The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama by Day, Edmund
In the man looking down on Marsham not a tinge of pharisaic condemnation mingled with the strange clearness of his judgment.
From The Testing of Diana Mallory by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
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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