pharisee

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Gordon chanced to come in that day and light upon Ernest, and the fury into which he worked himself ill beseemed so respectable a pharisee.

From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida

More than any other fetish it has ruined our sense of political values by glorifying the pharisee with his vain cruelty to individuals and his unfounded approval of himself.

From A Preface to Politics by Lippmann, Walter

I am distinctly aware, moreover, that the old quarrel of sinner and pharisee has something to do with the matter.

From Essays in Radical Empiricism by James, William

“What is a pharisee and a publican?” asked Caleb.

From Caleb in the Country by Abbott, Jacob

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 Holbach, Paul Henry Thiry Baron d'