Crossword-Solution: PHARISEE 8 letters, 29 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Pharisee n. One of a sect or party among the Jews, noted for a strict
and formal observance of rites and ceremonies and of the traditions of
the elders, and whose pretensions to superior sanctity led them to
separate themselves from the other Jews.

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PHARISEE anagram HESPERIA, SPHAIREE

We have 29 clues for the answer “PHARISEE”

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Member of an ancient, scholarly Jewish sect 1 answer
self-righteous or hypocritical person 1 answer
a member of an ancient Jewish sect noted for strict obedience to Jewish traditions 1 answer
Strict follower of Jewish law 1 answer
Sadducee's rival 1 answer
Sadducee's opponent 1 answer
Rival of a Sadducee 1 answer
Paul's sect before conversion. 1 answer
Opponent of the Sadducees. 1 answer
One of an ancient Jewish sect 1 answer
One in an ancient Jewish sect 1 answer
Old Jewish sectarian 1 answer
Member of an ancient Jewish school 1 answer
John the Baptist opponent 1 answer
Jewish sect member of old 1 answer
Hypocritical person. 1 answer
Biblical hypocrite. 1 answer
Ancient Jew 1 answer
Member of an ancient Jewish sect 2 answers
Sanctimonious sort 2 answers
Self-righteous one 2 answers
Strict observer 2 answers
lip server 3 answers
SELF-righteous person 4 answers
A SICKENING SANCTIMONIOUS SMILE 10 answers
A SELF-RIGHTEOUS OR SANCTIMONIOUS PERSON 10 answers
A CHRISTIAN AS CONTRASTED WITH A JEW 10 answers
A MEMBER OF AN ASCETIC JEWISH SECT AROUND THE TIME OF JESUS 10 answers
hypocrite 53 answers
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with PHARISEE (5)

For there are differences which no habit nor affection can reconcile, and the Bohemian must not intermarry with the Pharisee.
Virginibus Puerisque Robert Louis Stevenson 2012
Why should I feel the sobbing, the secrecy, the glory, This comforter, this fitful wind divine? I the cautious Pharisee, the scribe, the whited sepulchre-- I have no right to God, he is not mine.
General William Booth enters into Heaven and other Poems Vachel Lindsay 1995
But he’s got tongue enough to speak disrespectful about’s neebors, for he said as I was a blind Pharisee—a-usin’ the Bible i’ that way to find nick-names for folks as are his elders an’ betters!—and what’s worse, he’s been heard to say very unbecomin’ words about Your Reverence; for I could bring them as ’ud swear as he called you a ‘dumb dog,’ an’ a ‘idle shepherd.’ You’ll forgi’e me for sayin’ such things over again.” “Better not, better not, Joshua.
Adam Bede George Eliot [pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans] 1996
But whether the man was a poacher too Or a Pharisee so bold-- I reckon there’s more things told than are true, And more things true than are told.
Rewards and Fairies Rudyard Kipling 1996
The illiterate athletes like Langueduc think he’s getting eccentric, but they just say, ‘Good old Burne has got some queer ideas in his head,’ and pass on—the Pharisee class—Gee! they ridicule him unmercifully.” The next morning he met Burne hurrying along McCosh walk after a recitation.
This Side of Paradise F. Scott Fitzgerald 2008

Quotes with PHARISEE (3)

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns. These things and deeds are diametrically opposed: they are as distinct as is vice from virtue. Men too often confound them: they should not be confounded: appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human doctrines, that only tend to elate and magnify …
Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre
We live by revelation, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin to think we know all the answers, we forget the questions, and we become smug like the Pharisee who listed all his considerable virtues, and thanked God that he was not like other men. Unamuno might be describing the artist as well as the Christian as he writes, "Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without…
Madeleine L'Engle Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
Back when I was a devout Pharisee, I scowled at those who talked about grace, assuming they wanted both salvation and permission to do whatever they pleased. And when I came to discover grace as a biblical concept, it frightened me at first. The old idea of being saved by works has its benefits. It's a system where God owes you. You've been helping him out with all your good deeds. He can't very well put you through difficulty, since you're a taxpayer. You've paid your dues, …
Phil Callaway
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Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.

Used 20 times in crossword archives (1945–2024).