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Pharisee-like

Pharisee-like adjective: self-righteous; pharisaical.

Adjective

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

  1. Self-righteous; pharisaical.
    • 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.1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 295

Forms of Pharisee-like

comparativemore Pharisee-like
superlativemost Pharisee-like

Questions about Pharisee-like

What does Pharisee-like mean?
Pharisee-like means self-righteous; pharisaical.
What part of speech is Pharisee-like?
Pharisee-like is an adjective.

Words near Pharisee-like in the dictionary

  1. pharisaist
  2. pharisaists
  3. pharisean
  4. Phariseans
  5. Pharisee
  6. Pharisee-like
  7. Phariseeism
  8. Phariseeisms
  9. Pharisees
  10. Pharisæan
  11. Pharisæans

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