It may seem that we have here reached the extreme limits of fanaticism, but in reality there were men whom even the Pharisaical Puritanism of the Philipists did not satisfy.
How cleverly the Pharisaical official ridiculed him, and how quickly the friends of yesterday showed him the cold shoulder!
Woman, having lost the law, has acquired the belief that her strength lies in the witchery of her charms, or in her skill in pharisaicalpretences at intellectual work.
Colonel Delmare was an honest, straightforward man in the Pharisaical sense of the word.
He did not forgive, but made it his mission to denounce the pharisaical attitude of society.
Therefore we must fight against these great pharisaical errors, in order that we redeem the name of Christ and the honor of the Gospel and of Christ, and preserve for Christian hearts a true, permanent, certain consolation.
There are, I believe, hundreds of men and women now alive, who have outgrown their traditional faith, through no fault of their own; but who out of terror at the vague menaces of interested and Pharisaical persons do not dare to break away.
Arrogance, complacency, self-confidence, all the Pharisaical vices flourish briskly in such a soil.
The Pharisaical spirit loves precedent and authority; the humorous spirit loves all that is swift and shifting and subversive and fresh.
Rather Pharisaical outside of the cup and platter; but it is all I shall be able to do, I'm sure.
That afternoon he had dealt it a final blow, there was no more any room for it to rear its fair-speaking form, no longer should its veiled selfishness, its so-called virtuous indignation turn him into a Pharisaical judge.
As long as Christian teachers pursue wealth and preferment, indulge ambition, seek the society of the respectable, practise pharisaical virtues, we are not likely to draw much nearer to the ideals of Christ.
I do not quarrel with the transcendental treatment of love; I only say that if this is accompanied with a burning scorn and contempt for those who cannot pursue it, it becomes at once a pharisaical and bitter thing.
We call a man Pharisaical who cherishes his own good character as an end distinct from the common good for which it may be serviceable.
Pharisaical complacency in the mere fact of having conformed to command or rule.
Of what avail our benevolence that offers, not the Christ-touch of pity and understanding, but the bitter bread of craven servitude and Pharisaical condescension, that says "thou art vile and lost for all time?
Onkelos carried the Pharisaical intolerance to the last degree.
The feast of the dedication was not free of Pharisaical invention.
Yet the Rule of Luther’s Augustinian Congregation did not seek a merely outward, Pharisaical carrying out of its regulations, but a life where the duties of the religious state were performed in accordance with the inward spirit of the Order.
To any one who reads wisely, and not in a censorious and Pharisaical spirit, this sordid record, which is yet interspersed with things so fragrant and beautiful, may have a sobering and uplifting effect.
The devil also tempteth them to think, that though they sin, yet their good works are a compensation for their bad, and therefore they pray, and do some acts of pharisaical devotion, to make God amends for what they do amiss.
But, you will say, I must avoid soul-delusion and pharisaical ostentation on the other side; and few reach assurance; how then should we keep up the love of God?
It is idle, and pharisaical as well, for us to shrug our shoulders and say this is not a question for the pulpit.
In the books I have in view, it generally led the materfamilias into having an undue respect for correct information, and a pharisaical contempt for people who indulged their fancy.
Along about this time I developed thepharisaical stage.
Take notice then of this profound speech of the Publican, every word is heavier than the earth, and has more argument in it, than has ten thousand Pharisaical prayers.
And therefore friend (I say to thee) be not so pharisaicalas to say within thine heart, "I am not as this publican.
Obvious from yourpharisaical expression, perhaps," he said good-naturedly.
The editor and his pharisaical colleagues have learned, no doubt, the lovely dialect of the northern masters they have chosen for Italy and for themselves.
He protected the woman taken in adultery against her pharisaical judges; he commended the woman Magdalen, and prophesied that, wherever the Gospel should be preached, there should her name be also remembered.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pharisaical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: canting; fulsome; hypocritical; pharisaical; sanctimonious
