pharisaical
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World democracy, rich and proud and pharisaical, is the camel before the gate of the needle's eye.
From Time Magazine Archive
I bid him go forth in no pharisaical spirit, and invite him to communicate with me.
From At a Winter's Fire by Bernard Edward Joseph Capes
What shall be done to remove their noble and pharisaical indolence?
From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Camille Flammarion
I hate reports and statistics of societies, they always sound to me somehow so pharisaical, as if we were saying: 'Look how good we are!'
From A Popular Schoolgirl by Balliol Salmon
For purposes of comprehensive record I have divided the various stages of my waterwagoning into these parts: the obsession stage; the caramel stage; the pharisaical stage, and the safe-and-sane stage.
From Cutting It Out How to get on the waterwagon and stay there by Samuel G. (Samuel George) Blythe
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