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Toward what little there is, the author is almost pharisaically priggish.

From Time Magazine Archive

They would have taken into account sentimentally, morally, pharisaically, or cynically, according to their various attitudes towards life, the relations between Emmy and Mordaunt Prince which had led to this tragic situation.

From Septimus by Locke, William John

Not injuring him, nor pharisaically condemning him, but merely showing to him, and to all others, that I consider sin to be sin and call it so.

From Christian's Mistake by Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock