pharisaic
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Just in proportion as He offended the pharisaic scribes, so did He inspire with new hope the unhappy classes who were taught to consider themselves castaway.
From The Gospel According to St. Mark by Chadwick, G. A.
But she was neither doctrinaire, nor blind, nor pig-headed, nor pharisaic, nor jealous, nor scheming; but wise, brave, truthful, upright, and independent.
From Harriet Martineau by Miller, Florence Fenwick
The historian, however, must put aside these rather pharisaic prejudices, and give Seneca the position as a moral teacher which his writings have won in ages not less earnest than ours.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel
The very Neo-Platonists of Alexandria, while they derided the Christian asceticism, found themselves forced to affect, like the hapless Hypatia, a sentimental and pharisaic asceticism of their own.
From The Hermits by Kingsley, Charles
These Psalms of Solomon, as they are called, are pharisaic in point of view, yet they are not rabbinic in their ideas.
From The Life of Jesus of Nazareth by Rhees, Rush
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