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

Ruggles was not a man of the world in any sense; he was simple and Puritan in his judgments, and his gentle nature and his big heart kept him from pharisaical and strenuous 121 measures.

From The Girl From His Town by Vorst, Marie Van

They try not to be pharisaical about the narrowness of the East, but they achieve a sincere scorn for the hidebound conventions of an effete society.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra

Its faults of temper, its repulsive manners, its custom of making home unlovely, its distaste of innocent amusement, its habits of censure, its self-sufficiency and pharisaical character, are touched with a caustic but healing power.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

A certain short prayer with somewhat similar meaning occurred to the minister's son, but he only smiled at the pharisaical egotism of the Fat Woman.

From Pearl and Periwinkle by Graetz, Anna