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 hate reports and statistics of societies, they always sound to me somehow so pharisaical, as if we were saying: 'Look how good we are!'
From A Popular Schoolgirl by Salmon, Balliol
Along about this time I developed the pharisaical stage.
From Cutting It Out How to get on the waterwagon and stay there by Blythe, Samuel G. (Samuel George)
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
Russell, he said, had spread broadcast phylacteries, and used his most pharisaical language.
From Sketches in the House (1893) by O'Conner, T. P.
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