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• The villagers revered their religious leader for his example of pious conduct.From the entry revered
• White lies are verbal cases of pious fraud.From the entry pious fraud
• In the last years of Yungcheng, he came to Taiwan to collect pious alms along the way.2010 January 30, Songshan District Office, Taipei City, “The Religious Center of Sikou - Songshan Cihyou Temple”, in Taipei City…. From the entry Cyuanjhou
• Mariia Trubnikova was raised in an atmosphere of pious reverence for Decembrist ideals.2006, “Trubnikova, Mariia (1835-1897)”, in Francisca de Haan, Krasimira Daskalova, Anna Loutfi, editors, Biographical Dictionary of…. From the entry Decembrist
• What had begun as a pious intention became a bookselling enterprise.1993, Jaques Roger, translated by Robert Ellrich, edited by Keith R. Benson, The Life Sciences in Eighteenth-Century French Thought…. From the entry testaceotheology
• The pious politician knows that, gods willing, one can do anything to man.1987, Eating of the Gods, →ISBN, page 54. From the entry gods willing
• Or is it the tough relentless office-seeker with a pious front of “religiosity?”1976, Marquis Childs, “Glimpses of The Real Carter”, in The Washington Post. From the entry will the real someone please stand up
• My Lord of Kyrenia is a very pious Churchman and godly bishop.1907, Adrian Fortescue, “The Church of Cyprus”, in The Orthodox Eastern Church, London: Catholic Truth Society […], →OCLC, part IV (The…. From the entry Kyrenian
• Zaida's father, my great-grandfather, was pious and reputed to be a melamed, a learned though poor Orthodox Jew.2022 October 7, Dan Burt, Every Wrong Direction: An Emigré’s Memoir, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 3. From the entry zaida
• The orthodox newspaper Samacharchandrika warned that male teachers — however old or pious — would surely be a danger.2002, Supriya Chaudhuri, Sajni Mukherji, Literature and Gender: Essays for Jasodhara Bagchi, page 169. From the entry fantasizing
• Through this process, our educational media turn flesh-and-blood individuals into pious, perfect creatures without conflicts, pain, credibility, or human interest.1996, James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. From the entry heroification
• It should be obvious by now that bhakti is not merely pious thoughts of "love" but rather fearless action.1991, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Nārada-bhakti-sūtra, The Secrets of Transcendental Love, page 114. From the entry bhakti
• The pious connotations put men off, it was averred.1983, A. N. Wilson, Scandal: or Priscilla's Kindness, Penguin, published 1985, →ISBN, page 1. From the entry Bernadette
• Also, when she wolves a sandwich—a peasant greed and sort of pious righteousness, as if “Food is Good For You.1957 July 4, Dawn Powell, edited by Tim Page, The Diaries of Dawn Powell, 1931–1965, South Royalton, Vt.: Steerforth Press, published…. From the entry wolve
• How dare you give the pious Mr.1940, America's Lost Plays, volumes 13–14, page 183. From the entry fisheress
• Put on that pious look, mimp up his lips.1939, Bruce Lancaster, Guns of Burgoyne, page 160. From the entry mimp
• His Dopper community of the northeastern districts of the Cape Colony was considered more pious and socially conservative than any other community in the colony.2003, Hermann Buhr Giliomee, The Afrikaners: Biography of a People, page 177. From the entry Dopper
• Despite his grim mien, his kinship with vein-biters and hellspawns, Batman always maintained one pious virtue, his unspoken insistence on the value—the sacredness—of human life.1994, Dennis O’Neil, Batman: Knightfall, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 348. From the entry hellspawn
• In the Middle Ages preachers had enlivened their sermons with exempla – edifying tales of judgements upon sinners and mercies shown to the pious.1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 90. From the entry exemplum
• It is therefore impossible from Exsurge Domine alone to determine whether proposition 36 is condemned as heretical or merely as “offensive to pious ears.”1969, Harry J. McSorley, Luther: Right or Wrong? An Ecumenical-Theological Study of Luther’s Major Work, The Bondage of the Will, page 252. From the entry offensive to pious ears
• As the noblest of games, cricket has inspired a whole tribe of pious historians, and their researches enable us to namierise the Hambledon men.1962, Political Science - Volumes 14-15, pages 21–22. From the entry namierise
• The good Fathers coming into the chapel to evening Benediction, securing liberal fingertipsful of holy water, as was their pious wont, and—disaster.1937 February, Harriet L. Carritte, “Saint John Berchmans”, in The Ethos, volume 10, number 1, Boston, Mass.: Emmanuel College, page 107. From the entry fingertipful
• To boast mendaciously about one’s own gang and to slander and defame other gangs are acts everywhere officially regarded as creditable and even pious.1934, Aldous Huxley, “Guatemala City”, in Beyond the Mexique Bay, London: Chatto & Windus, pages 95–96. From the entry improving
• I promise, if I wake up as a girl, I will make up for it by having many boys, who will be the most studied and pious boys.2019, Abby Chava Stein, Becoming Eve, Seal Press, page 29. From the entry studied
• Written in minuscule script and placed on the shaded understep at the feet of the Virgin, the pious dedication was appropriate for the subject and its intended location.2009, Gretchen A. Hirschauer, Catherine A. Metzger, Peter Cherry, Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life, page 10. From the entry understep
• But some of the gathered skirts, with an extra tire of fabric around the middle, looked dustily Yamamoto, with pious allusions to women in bonnets and rustic stoles.2008 February 27, Cathy Horyn, “Not Everyone Spins Their Wheels”, in New York Times. From the entry dustily
• The maximum punishment for Qazf is 80 lashes and must be proven by the testimony of two pious Muslim male witnesses, except when the accused is non-Muslim.1992, Asia Watch Committee, Double Jeopardy: Police Abuse of Women in Pakistan. From the entry qazf
• That anyone would willingly swap being the disher of easy criticism, second-guessing, amateur psychoanalysis, pious lectures and sundry other grief to become the dishee is probably cause for an intervention.2009 August 14, Jim Coyle, “Going from pulp to friction”, in Toronto Star. From the entry disher
• These little mangers, with baby dolls representing Jesus, porcelean Josephs and Marys, wide-eyed cows of papier-mâché, and excelsior for straw, were purchased by pious parents for well-behaved children at Christmas-tide.1942, Elliot Paul, The Last Time I Saw Paris, Sickle Moon, published 2001, page 91. From the entry excelsior

Meaning of pious

1. adjective Of or pertaining to piety, exhibiting piety, devout, god-fearing.
2. adjective Relating to religion or religious works.
3. adjective Insisting on or making a show of one's own virtue, especially in comparison to others; sanctimonious, condescending, judgmental.

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How do you use pious in a sentence?

Pious is used as an adjective. For example: “A pious cause.”

What is a short sentence with pious?

“A pious cause.”

What does pious mean?

Pious means of or pertaining to piety, exhibiting piety, devout, god-fearing.