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
I do not sit in pharisaical judgment on the unfortunate.
From The Henchman by Luther, Mark Lee
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 Moore, Edward Caldwell
This little act of devotion was performed without the slightest appearance of pharisaical display, but in singleness and simplicity of heart.
From The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America by Traill, Catharine Parr Strickland
Against pharisaical religion it uses effective satire,—which was intensified in its successor, Dred,—but the Christianity of faith and life is its animating spirit.
From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by Merriam, George Spring
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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