pharisee
Example Sentences
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There was Rogers puffed out with pride; Christy, pharisee and humbug, superbly satisfied with himself.
From The Loom of Youth by Waugh, Alec
The reader may recollect the parable of the pharisee and the publican.
From Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published by Monk, Maria
This temper, and its opposite, are exemplified in the pharisee and publican, who went up to the temple to pray.
From Sermons on Various Important Subjects by Lee, Andrew
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 Lord, John
In the scene with Lady Milford she appears as a pert little pharisee, caustic, sententious and philosophical beyond her years; so that one wonders why a girl that knows so much should not know more.
From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Thomas, Calvin
