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  • 61Impiety — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Impiety >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 impiety impiety Sgm: N 1 sin sin &c. 945 Sgm: N 1 irreverence irreverence Sgm: N 1 profaneness profaneness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 profanity profanity …

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  • 62Pharisaic — 1610s, from Church L. pharisaicus, from Gk. pharisaikos, from pharisaios (see PHARISEE (Cf. Pharisee)). Related: Pharisaical …

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  • 63Pharisee — [ farɪsi:] noun 1》 a member of an ancient Jewish sect, distinguished by strict observance of the traditional and written law, and commonly held to have pretensions to superior sanctity. 2》 a self righteous person. Derivatives Pharisaic ˌfarɪ… …

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  • 64hypocritic — a.; (also hypocritical) 1. Pharisaical, canting, sanctimonious. 2. Dissembling, insincere, false, hollow, deceitful, faithless …

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  • 65insincere — a. False, faithless, truthless, untrue, disingenuous, uncandid, dishonest, hollow, hypocritical, pharisaical, double tongued, double faced, dissimulating, dissembling …

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  • 66over-righteous — a. Sanctimonious, pharisaical …

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  • 67pharisaic — a.; (also pharisaical) Sanctimonious, hypocritical, formal …

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  • 68sanctimonious — a. Pharisaical, affectedly holy, hypocritically devout …

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  • 69truthless — a. 1. False. 2. Faithless, disingenuous, insincere, unfair, dishonest, hollow, hypocritical, pharisaical, canting, treacherous …

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  • 70hollow — I. a. 1. Vacant, empty, void, cavernous. 2. Insincere, treacherous, false, faithless, hypocritical, pharisaical, deceitful, false hearted, hollow hearted. 3. Deep, low, rumbling. II. n. 1. Depression, low spot, low place. 2. Cavity, concavity,… …

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