Pharisaic
adjective
of or relating to the Pharisees.
Pharisaical
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a variation of
Pharisaic.
Example Sentences
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She appreciated her goodly heritage, not with any Pharisaical exultation but with honest gratitude.
From Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' by Helen Mason Groce
This man, Christ saith, was a son of Abraham, that is, as other Jews were; for he spake to stop the mouths of their Pharisaical cavillations.
From The Pharisee and Publican by John Bunyan
After his usual fashion, he mistook his malevolence for virtue, nursed it, as preachers tell us we ought to nurse our good dispositions, and paraded it, on all occasions, with Pharisaical ostentation.”
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide by Charles Herbert Sylvester
The word Pharisaical has now come into common English use, and means hypocritical.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide by Charles Herbert Sylvester
But Lessing did not, however, mean by them to charter Pharisaical pedantry.
From Pedagogics as a System by Anna C. (Anna Callender) Brackett
