pharisaic
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I know that I've been horrid to you all my life, critical and pharisaic.
From The Fifth Wheel A Novel by Prouty, Olive Higgins
Just in proportion as He offended the pharisaic scribes, so did He inspire with new hope the unhappy classes who were taught to consider themselves castaway.
From The Gospel According to St. Mark by Chadwick, G. A.
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.
More striking than Jesus' independence in his teaching is the calmness of his self-assertion when he was opposed by pharisaic criticism and hostility.
From The Life of Jesus of Nazareth by Rhees, Rush
But she was neither doctrinaire, nor blind, nor pig-headed, nor pharisaic, nor jealous, nor scheming; but wise, brave, truthful, upright, and independent.
From Harriet Martineau by Miller, Florence Fenwick
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