pharisaical

ADJECTIVE
  1. excessively or hypocritically pious
    a sickening sanctimonious smile
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  • The pharisaical, malefic, and incogitant Guidelines for Bias-Free Writing is a product of the pointy-headed wowsers at the Association of American University Presses who established a Task Force on Bias-Free Language filled with cranks, pokenoses, blowhards, four-flushers, and pettifogs. P.J. O’Wowser
  • Before his marriage, Mr. Weld lodged, on principle, in a colored family in New York, even submitting to the inconvenience of having no heat in his room in winter, and bearing with singular charity and patience what Sarah calls the sanctimonious pride and Pharisaical aristocracy of his hosts. The Grimke Sisters
  • Madame de Stael: "To understand everything means to forgive everything," has never particularly appealed to me; it has the odor of the confessional; to forgive one's fellow-being conveys the idea of pharisaical superiority. Anarchism and Other Essays
  • Stael: "To understand everything means to forgive everything," has never particularly appealed to me; it has the odor of the confessional; to forgive one's fellow being conveys the idea of pharisaical superiority. Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906
  • And the Church does not blow its own trumpet, not just for fear of sounding pharisaical, but because it knows it is in many ways quite weak. Cameron is not an enigma, he’s an Anglican
  • But we shall see the pharisaical nature of our attachment to Bengali. The Logos of Bangladesh
  • a completely newapproach, quite at odds with the usual way man evaluates things: they rule out any kind of pharisaical religiosity, which regards earthly happiness as a blessing from God and a reward for good behavior, and unhappi - ness and misfortune as a form of punishment. Latest Articles
  • Two comments that often reveal a lack of understanding of the liturgy-doctrine connection are these: "all that matters in the Mass is that Our Lord is present in the Eucharist" or "to be concerned about vestments, music, and other externals in the Mass is pharisaical. The Sacred Liturgy: The First School of the Faith
  • The pharisaical, malefic, and incogitant Guidelines for Bias-Free Writing is a product of the pointy-headed wowsers at the Association of American University Presses who established a Task Force on Bias-Free Language filled with cranks, pokenoses, blowhards, four-flushers, and pettifogs. P.J. O’Wowser
  • I suppose this would would make us even greater and more loving than Jesus who never spoke ill of pharisaical hypocrisy, never mentioned hell fire or causing scandal to the least of these, and never suggested that anyone could be lost. Sen. Ted Kennedy's right to a Catholic funeral
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