Pharisaical
- a variation of Pharisaic.
Example Sentences
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Hazlet mistook his courteous manner for a deferential agreement, and was, too often, in Julian’s presence more than usually insufferable in his Pharisaical tendencies.
From Julian Home by Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William)
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 Sylvester, Charles Herbert
Mr. Jerry's expression twinkled, as though he protested against being credited with a Pharisaical purity, susceptible to shocks.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend
But he was too honest not to detect almost at once his own Pharisaical, un-Christlike spirit.
From We Two, a novel by Lyall, Edna
This stickler for etiquette was absolutely shocked; he held up his hands, began a declamation on the rules of evidence, and uttered so many Pharisaical platitudes that I only escaped annihilation by a hair's-breadth.
From The Reminiscences of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton) by Brampton, Henry Hawkins, Baron
