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  • Not unlike a lot of pharasaical Republicans – Vitter, Ensign, Sanford, R. Reed, J. Wilson and several others recently.

    McDonnell drops F-bomb in live interview 2009

  • And many of the doctrines you reference are either misrepresented by you, or are pharasaical - you've added to scripture.

    TEXAS FAITH: Is wickedness soluble in good deeds? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

  • To arrogate such power to yourself ... to see what is in people's hearts is pharasaical James- it is arrant heresy and far from Christianity, it is not for you to know what people are in their innermost hearts.

    Archive 2008-04-01 2008

  • The opposition to the act of abortion sounds like pharasaical moralizing over an act-- an operation to removed an undesired object, like a tumour.

    A New Debate: Equality for the Unborn Child Suzanne 2007

  • To Mr. McKenty Cowperwood was interesting because he was one of the few business men he had met who were not ponderous, pharasaical, even hypocritical when they were dealing with him.

    The Titan 2004

  • On the other hand, there were ingrates, uncompromising or pharasaical religionists and reformers, plotting, scheming rivals, who found him deadly to contend with.

    The Titan 2004

  • This is in accordance with the pharasaical mentality of the leaders of imperialism.

    4TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION 1963

  • This world was compressed into a mould of anomalous conventions: blind, pharasaical but real.

    A Murder of Quality Le Carre, John, 1931- 1962

  • With all this, however, the Dhimars practise in some social matters a pharasaical strictness.

    The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

  • Such a nomination of an avowed disunionist shows the true spirit of the Chicago Convention, and that all their general expressions of devotion to the Union were mere empty sounds, calculated to secure votes, but utterly false and hypocritical; for, while indulging in these pharasaical expressions of love for the Union, they nominate, at the same time, as their candidate for the Vice President, an avowed secessionist and disunionist.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

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