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- adjective Not
pharisaical .
Etymologies
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un- + pharisaical
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Examples
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Thus an anathema, in itself a shade pharisaical, is converted into an expression of unpharisaical liberality.
Advertisement for Himself Kermode, Frank 1997
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This belief flows as an unconscious undercurrent in the thought even of those clergymen who try pathetically hard to seem and be liberal and unpharisaical, the kind who always begin their lectures on Avery Hopwood by saying that they yield to no one in their admiration and respect for the many splendid ladies and gentlemen of the stage whom they are proud to number among their acquaintances.
Nonsenseorship G. G. [Editor] Putnam 1915
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