pharisaic
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Yet coincidently with this method of his choice he did not hesitate to reply to pharisaic opposition with unqualified self-assertion and exalted personal claim.
From The Life of Jesus of Nazareth by Rhees, Rush
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 Day, Edmund
And Lily, whose clamour has been far in excess of her brother's, chimes in with pharisaic officiousness, 'Nonsense, Franky! do not be naughty!
From Doctor Cupid by Broughton, Rhoda
It is now also that the silence of James, in reference to that condition which was demanded by those of a pharisaic tendency, gains significance.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm
They chose for this mission priests and Levites of pharisaic leaning as most influential among the people.
From The Life of Jesus of Nazareth by Rhees, Rush
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