Pharisee-likeadj.adv.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Pharisien, hypocriticall, Pharisie-like.

1650 T. Bakewell Dr. Chamberlain Visited 14 The more of outside in any duty, the more you are Pharisee-like.

1788 S. Low Politician Out-witted i. iii. 11 One may take an excursion on York or Long-Island—an agreeable sail on the East-river—a walk in the Broad-way, Pharisee like, to be seen of men, and—to see them.

1895 Decatur (Illinois) Daily Rev. 2 Mar. 4/1 The self styled Good Morality party has not much reason for the Pharisee like manner in which it points at candidates of other parties.

1994 Independent (Nexis) 17 Mar. 22 Is he available to put his beliefs into action? Or is he typical of his Pharisee-like generation—a ‘do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do’ preacher?

1651 E. Hall Manus Testium Movens To Rdr. sig. A2v When (Pharisee-like) such learned Doctors shall neither enter in themselves, nor suffer others to enter in, it would provoke a stone to speak.

1677 G. Fox Testimony what we believe of Christ 44 Consider this all ye wanton Professors, that live in pleasure, that have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter, and condemned and killed the Just, Pharisee-like.

1725 P. Gretton Vindic. Doctr. Church Eng. v. 15 And the Papists, Pharisee like, stood up against them.

1822 J. MacDonald Mem. J. Benson 153 Did he Pharisee-like bless God that he was not as other men?

1858 W. M. Mumford Life & Labours Rev. D. Baker 22 So lifting up my eyes, I began my prayer, Pharisee-like, and said ‘God, I thank thee that I am not so bad as other people are’.

1946 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 6 523 Pharisee-like, he [sc. Neurath] speaks of Logpu as if it was superior in its nature and not by its consequences.