pharisee
Example Sentences
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Instead, they’ve become some of the shrillest Pharisees in the right’s culture war, especially against anything that resembles embracing LGBTQ+ folks.
From Los Angeles Times
The rebuke by the Pharisees who saw this elicited Jesus’ rebuttal that he was “Lord even of the Sabbath” in Matthew 12:8.
From Washington Times
“But I don’t want to be the Pharisees of this generation, where I turn it into some kind of rule that there’s never an exception for.”
From New York Times
His words were drowned out by abortion rights supporter Beau Black, who repeatedly screamed: “Hypocrites and Pharisees! Hypocrites and Pharisees!”
From Seattle Times
Much like the Pharisees, today's American evangelicals do not represent the faith in any genuine way.
From Salon
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