Pharisaical [adjective]
Definition of Pharisaical:
hypocritical
Synonyms of Pharisaical:
● Affected
● Artificial
● Assuming
● Bland
● Canting
● Captious
● Deceptive
● Double
● Double-dealing
● Duplicitous
● Faithless
● Fishy
● Fraudulent
● Glib
● Hollow
● Insincere
● Left-handed
● Lying
● Oily
● Pecksniffian
● Pharisaic
● Phony
● Pietistic
● Pious
● Sanctimonious
● Self-righteous
● Smooth
● Smooth-tongued
● Snide
● Specious
● Spurious
● Two-faced
● Unctuous
● Unnatural
● Unreliable
● Dissembling
● False
● Feigning
● Jivey
● Moralistic
● Smooth-spoken
Opposite/Antonyms of Pharisaical:
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Sentence/Example of Pharisaical:
We forgive his insight, because there is nothing in it Pharisaical.
There was a smirk of pharisaical satisfaction on their faces.
But he was too honest not to detect almost at once his own Pharisaical, un-Christlike spirit.
"Obvious from your pharisaical expression, perhaps," he said good-naturedly.
What shall be done to remove their noble and pharisaical indolence?
Hate witnesses only a false love; sin, a pharisaical righteousness.
Clancy sensed the slow fermentation of the pharisaical mind.
Reduced to Pharisaical tricks, they took to expounding her speeches.
There was danger of his growing up with a self-satisfied, pharisaical spirit.
The piety of the one was lofty; that of the other was technical, formal, and pharisaical.