pious
adjective
having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for God or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations.
piously
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a word derived from
pious.
Example Sentences
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What the “One World” broadcast managed was to replicate something old-fashioned: a big, corny, mass-media entertainment, one that piously affirmed what feel like bedrock, mainstream values.
From New York Times ● May 6, 2020
In particular, he declared piously, Libra was designed to help émigrés in the rich world to send money to their relatives in the poor world without being ripped off by unscrupulous capitalists.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 21, 2019
The show’s wall text piously bills this design as taking a moral stand that chooses cultural transparency over opacity.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2019
He had always been piously against “profiting off the failures of others,” as he put it.
From Slate ● Nov. 27, 2018
She would read on and on forever, while the two of them nodded piously at each other.
From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson
