pharisaical

ADJECTIVE

hypocritical

Synonyms

WEAK

Pecksniffian affected artificial assuming bland canting captious caviling deceptive deluding dissembling double double-dealing duplicitous faithless false feigning fishy fraudulent glib hollow insincere jivey left-handed lying moralistic oily pharisaic phony pietistic pious sanctimonious self-righteous smooth smooth-spoken smooth-tongued snide specious spurious two-faced unctuous unnatural unreliable

Example Sentences

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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 Capes, Bernard Edward Joseph

Why should this pharisaical little bird make one feel a criminal?

From The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Newnes, George

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 Flammarion, Camille

"Good-bye," I said, with a recurrence to my smirk of pharisaical pity, "I am sorry to see you here."

From Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature by Goldman, Emma

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