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Jane Austen isn't castigated for wasting her time on parsonical gentry; she is praised for being so honest as to write only about what she knew.

From The Guardian • Apr. 2, 2013

British writers, in fact, use humor to put across "a social message which might otherwise seem either boring or too plainly parsonical."

From Time Magazine Archive

“He is a prince!” he said with pathos, and answered himself in a drawly, sing-song parsonical voice.

From Royal Highness by Mann, Thomas

She nodded and went off to her game, and informing Mr. Petherbridge that Lady Bruce was a platitudinous old tabby, flirted with him up to the nice limits of his parsonical dignity.

From The Rough Road by Locke, William John

So long has the narrow, parsonical, cynical contempt for the understanding of the lower classes prevailed—through our fault—a reversal to blind worship of the masses, of the immature and the unsuccessful, is not inexcusable.

From The New Society by Windham, Arthur