parsonical

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Jane Austen isn't castigated for wasting her time on parsonical gentry; she is praised for being so honest as to write only about what she knew.

From The Guardian • Apr. 2, 2013

British writers, in fact, use humor to put across "a social message which might otherwise seem either boring or too plainly parsonical."

From Time Magazine Archive

"Now, Bill Gray, that's a very parsonical view of yours, isn't it?" said Holgate with a sneer.

From Hurricane Island by Watson, H. B. Marriott (Henry Brereton Marriott)

"What Seer?" the little parson inquired, with parsonical curiosity.

From An African Millionaire Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay by Allen, Grant

So long has the narrow, parsonical, cynical contempt for the understanding of the lower classes prevailed—through our fault—a reversal to blind worship of the masses, of the immature and the unsuccessful, is not inexcusable.

From The New Society by Windham, Arthur