pharisaic
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
To appear well in the opinion of others was the aim of pharisaic conduct.
From Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics by Archibald B. C. Alexander
If we read the gospel of Matthew, we find that he does not attempt to abrogate the pharisaic commandments, but only insists upon the greater importance of the commandments of the heart.
From Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses by Felix Adler
Just in proportion as He offended the pharisaic scribes, so did He inspire with new hope the unhappy classes who were taught to consider themselves castaway.
From The Gospel According to St. Mark by G. A. Chadwick
When he thought how Payson had drawn his pistol on trusting, unsuspecting Dick Lane in the garden, he was filled with the same pharisaic self-righteousness that inflated Bud when comparing himself with McKee.
From The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama by Edmund Day
These Psalms of Solomon, as they are called, are pharisaic in point of view, yet they are not rabbinic in their ideas.
From The Life of Jesus of Nazareth by Rush Rhees
Vocabulary lists containing pharisaic
