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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. excessively or hypocritically pious;
- Example: "a sickening sanctimonious smile"
[syn: holier-than-thou, pietistic, pietistical, pharisaic, pharisaical, sanctimonious, self-righteous]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Pharisaic \Phar`i*sa"ic\ (f[a^]r`[i^]*s[=a]"[i^]k), Pharisaical \Phar`i*sa"ic*al\ (-[i^]*kal), a. [L. Pharisaicus, Gr. Farisai:ko`s: cf. F. pharisa["i]que. See Pharisee.] 1. Of or pertaining to the Pharisees; resembling the Pharisees. "The Pharisaic sect among the Jews." --Cudworth. [1913 Webster] 2. Hence: Addicted to external forms and ceremonies; making a show of religion without the spirit of it; ceremonial; formal; hypocritical; self-righteous. "Excess of outward and pharisaical holiness." --Bacon. "Pharisaical ostentation." --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] -- Phar`i*sa"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Phar`i*sa"ic*al*ness, n. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

pharisaic adj 1: excessively or hypocritically pious; "a sickening sanctimonious smile" [syn: holier-than-thou, pietistic, pietistical, pharisaic, pharisaical, sanctimonious, self-righteous]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

25 Moby Thesaurus words for "pharisaic": Pecksniffian, Tartuffian, Tartuffish, affected, canting, false, goody, goody-goody, holier-than-thou, hypocritic, hypocritical, insincere, mealymouthed, oily, pecksniffian, pharisaical, pharisean, pietistic, pious, sanctified, sanctimonious, self-righteous, simon-pure, sniveling, unctuous