Definitionadj. excessively or hypocritically pious
Last update: October 8, 2015
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They always were, from first to last, narrow, pedantic, one-sided, legal, technical, pharisaical. [Please select]
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The proud and pharisaical, the ambitious and tyrannical, principalities and powers, may combine to crush us. [Please select]
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The piety of the one was lofty; that of the other was technical, formal, and pharisaical. [Please select]
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"In wit a man, in simplicity a child," nothing gloomy, narrow, or pharisaical entered into the composition of Eugene Field. [Please select]
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The age itself was religious; and so was he, in a technical and pharisaical piety and petty ritualistic duties. [Please select]
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"O, ay," said the Major; "that seems to be one of my old acquaintance, a genuine puritan of the right pharisaical leaven." [Please select]
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If in their contemptible, pharisaical notions of morality they choose to forget what my mother and father were to them, they cease to exist for me. [Please select]
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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. [Please select]
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