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pharisaic
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synonyms: religiose ???
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Definition:1. Of or pertaining to the Pharisees; resembling the Pharisees.2. Hence: Addicted to external forms and ceremonies; making a show of religion without the spirit of it; ceremonial; formal; hypocritical; self-righteous.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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But wait till Windrip shows us how to say it with machine guns! Democracy— here and in Britain and France, it hasn’t been so universal a sniveling slavery as Naziism in Germany, such an imagination-hating, pharisaic materialism as Russia— even if it has produced industrialists like you, Frank, and bankers like you, R.C., and given you altogether too much power and money. On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy’s given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had. That may be menaced now by Windrip— all the Windrips.
Sinclair Lewis. It Can't Happen Here
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Of course," he said gloomily, "it is one of those Pharisaical cruelties of which only such heartless men are capable. He knows what agony any recollection of him must give her, and knowing her, he must have a letter from her.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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After all, John, perhaps we old families, as we call ourselves, are a little bit pharisaical and self-righteous, and too apt to thank God that we are not as other men are. It'll do us good to be obliged to come a little out of our crinkles.
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Pink and White Tyranny (1871)
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