pharisaic

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Yet coincidently with this method of his choice he did not hesitate to reply to pharisaic opposition with unqualified self-assertion and exalted personal claim.

From The Life of Jesus of Nazareth by Rhees, Rush

Thus, then, my mother now, commanding that hideous deed with a mind at peace in pharisaic self-righteousness.

From The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza by Sabatini, Rafael

It is now also that the silence of James, in reference to that condition which was demanded by those of a pharisaic tendency, gains significance.

From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm

The very Neo-Platonists of Alexandria, while they derided the Christian asceticism, found themselves forced to affect, like the hapless Hypatia, a sentimental and pharisaic asceticism of their own. 

From The Hermits by Kingsley, Charles

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