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
"Good-bye," I said, with a recurrence to my smirk of pharisaical pity, "I am sorry to see you here."
From Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature by Goldman, Emma
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
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
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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