pieties
- plural of piety.
Example Sentences
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Through an artistic probing of form, perhaps reflective of his ancestors’ Talmudic dialectic, he questioned traditional pieties and challenged an existing order.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026
Much of the public wanted a different take on war - and one that challenged solemn pieties at the heart of Official Remembrance.
From BBC • Nov. 10, 2025
Public service wasn’t about party pieties, Jim said, but rather “finding a solution to a problem.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 31, 2025
She has made a living as a yoga teacher, though she doesn’t really like teaching and has a penchant for skewering the pieties of her profession in Instagram parodies filmed by her husband.
From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2023
The Damphair might disapprove, but Aeron and his pieties were far away.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
