Pharisee-like

English

Adjective

Pharisee-like (comparative more Pharisee-like, superlative most Pharisee-like)

  1. Self-righteous; pharisaical.
    • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 295:
      None for the murdered men were shown, and the feeling of their relatives must have been very much hurt by the Pharisee-like sentiments that were openly displayed.
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