piousness
- a word derived from pious.
Example Sentences
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Yet, in baritone Michael Chioldi’s Seattle debut, his sadism wrapped in performative piousness is eerily familiar.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 22, 2021
Silence itself is often linked with piousness and a kind of dignified reserve.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 9, 2020
That contrast runs through the show, in ways that are a welcome change from the genre’s frequent characteristics: piousness, fear mongering, lazy stereotyping.
From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2019
Bucar notes that when a culture invests so much of its identity in the appearance, in the piousness of women, it also is investing women with a cultural and social power.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 23, 2017
But the hard piousness of Cynthy Ann's face had never attracted her sympathy.
From The End of the World A Love Story by Eggleston, Edward
