pharisaism
Example Sentences
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His smirking and somewhat subversive accommodation to this Pharisaism is to emphasize the ways in which Black English is more complex than Standard English.
From The New Yorker
“Cruz’s behavior in the Haley case is almost the dictionary definition of pharisaism,” Brooks writes, “an overzealous application of the letter of the law in a way that violates the spirit of the law, as well as fairness and mercy.”
From Salon
So why do so many people see only judgmentalism and rejection, even pharisaism?
From The Guardian
There was no latent or acquired taint of Pharisaism in his nature.
From Project Gutenberg
Everywhere in English society there is a quite unconscious, naive sort of Pharisaism, the unavowed but actual principle of which is that it matters very little if a man does the wrong thing, provided he publicly acts and says the right thing.
From Project Gutenberg
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
