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
What is prudish, puritanical, fastidious, affected, pharisaical, etc.?
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner
I hate talking about it, it sounds so pharisaical, but my father wanted me to be a Christian, and you know what Christianity meant to him.
From All for a Scrap of Paper A Romance of the Present War by Joseph Hocking
Yet the retribution falls also upon the Church, in that it becomes artificial, clerical, pharisaical.
From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Edward Caldwell Moore
It is Dean Farrar who says that these pharisaical attacks on the stage are inspired only by "concentrated malice."
From Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O by Thomas B. (Thomas Brackett) Reed
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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