pharisaic
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I know that I've been horrid to you all my life, critical and pharisaic.
From The Fifth Wheel A Novel by Prouty, Olive Higgins
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
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
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
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 Chadwick, G. A.
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