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
Mr. Morley's reply was to repeat the words "pharisaical language"—at which there was another storm.
From Sketches in the House (1893) by T. P. O'Conner
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
"Obvious from your pharisaical expression, perhaps," he said good-naturedly.
From Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature by Emma Goldman
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 Robert Ezra Park
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