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 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
Was there nothing pharisaical in the temper of this welcome?
From Discipline by Brunton, Mary
This scandalized the pharisaical men of the time, who looked askance at all learned women and resented particularly the preëminence given to Paula and her accomplished daughter.
From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by Zahm, John Augustine
When Evelyn's Sevi is grave, it is a "formal and pharisaical gravitie" which is "starcht on."
From The History of Sabatai Sevi The Suppos'd Messiah of the Jews by Evelyn, John
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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