pharisee
Example Sentences
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The reader may recollect the parable of the pharisee and the publican.
From Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published by Maria Monk
The self-applauding bird, the peacock see:— Mark what a sumptuous pharisee is he!
From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Jacob Zeitlin
“Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a pharisee, the other a publican.”
From Caleb in the Country by Jacob Abbott
“Yes; but, grandmother, if the pharisee really was a good man, it wasn't right for him to thank God for it?”
From Caleb in the Country by Jacob Abbott
He, too, had taken the part of the lowly and oppressed, and against all the established power of priest and pharisee.
From The Iron Heel by Jack London
