pharisaism

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The law of force is honest paganism, but this covering up of the world's foulness with scum—that is nauseating pharisaism.

From Victory out of Ruin by Maclean, Norman

His terrible denunciation and enumeration of evil indicate a very lax morality in every quarter, added to hypocrisy and pharisaism.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 02 Jewish Heroes and Prophets by Lord, John

Zola has several phases; one of them, I admit, blue as heaven's own tinct; but Holmes has only one phase, namely, pharisaism.

From Such Is Life by Furphy, Joseph

These expressions of unctuous pharisaism are coldly received by the French, who ask no favours but claim justice.

From The Tragedy of St. Helena by Runciman, Walter

There was a blaze of brutal pharisaism that put a bar-sinister across any claim to gentlemanliness on the part of the majority.

From Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View by Collier, Price