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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

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 Reed, Thomas B. (Thomas Brackett)

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

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 Hocking, Joseph

What is prudish, puritanical, fastidious, affected, pharisaical, etc.?

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham

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