Examples of 'pious' in a sentence
Meaning of "pious"
Pious describes someone who is devoutly religious and showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for a god
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- Of or pertaining to piety, exhibiting piety, devout, godfearing.
- Relating to religion or religious works.
- Insisting on or making a show of one's own virtue, especially in comparison to others; sanctimonious, condescending, judgmental.
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There is not a pious bone in your body.
Pious discourse is spiritual food to the needy.
This is the pious soil of the shrine.
Pious exercises are typical expressions of popular piety.
Indeed the pious shall be amid bliss.
No lie ever crosses those pious lips.
I saw in him a pious hand being offered to a castaway.
I am glad to meet a noble and pious man.
The pious ones will be in a secure place.
He had sent her pious father a letter.
The pious will triumph in the end.
It ill becomes a pious man like you.
Bloodless pious face like a fellow going in to be a priest.
He descended from a pious and rich family.
God was pious in letting us return home safely.
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You sicken me with your pious attitudes.
Indeed the pious are in shade and springs.
None of us can break her pious silence.
The most pious would be to kill him.
My affianced is a very noble and pious man.
Dried up and pious and judging everybody.
We are not asking for sympathy or pious condescension.
The most pious are the worst whores.
It seems like a holy and pious thing to do.
Ask your pious lecturing friends if it is not.
Our earth now is just and pious.
The king is a pious but busy man.
Most pious among us can become impure.
Sex is considered a pious and sacred activity.
Some pious people think it was an angel.
It might just be a pious wish of the skipper.
It is pious to think that we can save somebody.
You look super pious in this one.
Those pious chassidim build them again.
So sweetly it bends to prayer and to pious abandon.
There were nine pious women in the ashtray.
How wonderful is the residence of the pious.
He was one of the pious persons of his time.
The pious wishes of the other ministers.
It would have been a pious thing to give punishment.
Eleanor was remembered as a witty yet pious woman.
Works by pious authors are soothing to the soul.
And avoid it shall the most pious.
You are pious enough for the both of us.
God knows well about the pious.
And that pious look on your face.
Your father says you are quite pious.
They offend pious sentiment and propriety.
Such spectacle does not enrichen pious souls.
Pious men designed this plan.
