pharisee
Example Sentences
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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 Jacob Abbott
"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 Olin L. Lyman
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 John Lord
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 Paul Henry Thiry Baron d' Holbach
Therefore when the chairman announced the advent of the teams, another pharisee mentioned, that the waiting committee had not yet spoken and the chairman said, that they should speak.
From Secret Enemies of True Republicanism by Andrew B. Smolnikar
