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Pharisaical Personality Syndrome 

A toxic personality style characterized by excessive pride in one's own virtue, a lack of empathy for the moral struggles of others, self-righteousness, hypocrisy, and a holier-than-thou attitude. People with this often make a show of being good rather than actually being good.
Corrupt church officials such as crooked pastors, elders, and deacons are the first people that come to mind when thinking of pharisaical personality syndrome.

Communal narcissists also exhibit this if they are in the church or claim to be Christian when they aren't.
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Pharisaical Personality Syndrome 

A toxic personality style characterized by excessive pride in one's own virtue, a lack of empathy for the moral struggles of others, self-righteousness, hypocrisy, and a holier-than-thou attitude.
Corrupt church officials such as pastors and elders can have Pharisaical Personality Syndrome.

pharisytical

the adjective form of the noun "pharisee", meaning "hypocrite". So, basically it means hypocritical. Although, this way it kind of sounds like "pharmaceutical", which is like a pharmacist. Now that's pretty funny.
Man, don't be such a pharisytical pharisee, i mean come on man. If I wanted to see or react with more Pharisees and hypocrites, I would read the Bible.
pharisytical by El_Scorcho August 28, 2003

pharisaicalism 

Pharisaicalism is the idea that acting as a participant in a paradigm makes someone liable for the self-same paradigm.

For instance a capitalist is liable for capitalism, whether or not he knows of capitalism.
Pharisaicalism does not make an observer-observation distinction. The observer IS the observation.
pharisaicalism by sandraxine August 25, 2020

Pharisaicalism 

is the state of cluelessness to the idea that a man acting as a participant in a dictated paradigm surely makes this same man; liable for the self-same paradigm.
Only if she knew; that they actually studied pharisaicalism.
Pharisaicalism by 1vlad October 19, 2021

Pharisaic Personality Syndrome 

A toxic personality style characterized by excessive pride in one's own virtue, a lack of empathy for the moral struggles of others, self-righteousness, hypocrisy, and a holier-than-thou attitude. This is most common with those who claim to be part of the Christian faith, but just use it as an excuse to be mean, hateful, and judgemental. The best treatment for a personality like this is understanding, empathy and most importantly, prayer.
The corrupt pastor of that church has a bad case of pharisaic personality syndrome.
It is said of the situation where a person has the bad luck to make contact with his testicles against an undefined surface or object, intentioned or not.
Given the nature of the word, it is more appropriate to design cases where the interaction is made with a moving object, for example, a ball.
Although it is extremely painful for the victim, it tends to be considerably funny to people who witness it.
Today in the baseball game the pitcher took a nutshot; the baseball hit him in the nuts.

Man, I just watched the funniest nutshot video ever.
Nutshot by Uberflaven March 1, 2009
Word of the Day on June 26, 2026