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
Its faults of temper, its repulsive manners, its custom of making home unlovely, its distaste of innocent amusement, its habits of censure, its self-sufficiency and pharisaical character, are touched with a caustic but healing power.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
We are not alone, therefore, in this pharisaical spirit, which exists, in some mode or other, wherever man himself is to be found.
From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore
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 Blythe, Samuel G. (Samuel George)
What is prudish, puritanical, fastidious, affected, pharisaical, etc.?
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham
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