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Pharisaic

adjective
1.
Excessively or hypocritically pious.  Synonyms: holier-than-thou, pharisaical, pietistic, pietistical, sanctimonious, self-righteous.





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"Pharisaic" Quotes from Famous Books



... of this winning personality has, in a sense, told against it; for men are prone to call the well-balanced nature cold and the well-regulated life Pharisaic. Addison did not escape charges of this kind from the wild livers of his own time, who could not dissociate genius from profligacy nor generosity of nature from prodigality. It was one of the great services of Addison to his generation and to all generations, ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 1 • Charles Dudley Warner
... the modern religious world, that the type of a Christian's virtue must be very miserable, and ordinary, and ineffectual, if he does not feel his whole soul burn within him with an almost implacable moral indignation at the sight of cruelty and injustice, of Pharisaic ...
— Seekers after God • Frederic William Farrar


Words linked to "Pharisaic" :   pharisaical, pious, pharisee


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