pharisaism
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Such frankness tends to destroy "sympathetic interest," to make delusion and illusion impossible; it gives cynicism and his brother, pharisaism, their opportunity to simper and to sneer.
From The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel by David Graham Phillips
He was a sublime, almost a diabolical opportunist I have often thought Benjamin Franklin, with his "honesty is the best policy," is another Machiavelli, only touched a little with the pharisaism of the Puritan.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by William Cowper Brann
His terrible denunciation and enumeration of evil indicate a very lax morality in every quarter, added to hypocrisy and pharisaism.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 02 Jewish Heroes and Prophets by John Lord
For Christy was the typical product of conventionality and pharisaism.
From The Loom of Youth by Alec Waugh
There is at least no superiority in their outlook, no pharisaism.
From Change in the Village by George Sturt
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