pious
IPA: pˈaɪʌs
adjective
- Of or pertaining to piety, exhibiting piety, devout, god-fearing.
- 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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Examples of "pious" in Sentences
- She is a pious Christian.
- He was pious and peaceable.
- The pious person achieved sublimity and nearness to God.
- He is the pious, the pure, the guide, and the rightly guided.
- He was very fond of the company of the learned and the pious.
- Secondly, it is a good example of what I call the pious palimpsest.
- The pious young scholar spread far and wide the spirit of Chassidus.
- He was the first of nine children born to the family of pious farmers.
- If you type in the word 'pious' in Google it now comes up 'pious baloney.'
- The wood blocks are testimony to the pious devotion of king and his people.
- After the reign of Louis the Pious the capitularies became long and diffuse.
- In this sense she is very much the opposite of the standard of the pious queen.
- Martita kneeled on the front row with her hands pressed together in pious prayer-like fashion.
- In the colony Derré de Gand was known as a pious and charitable man who “sought God in the spirit of truth.”
- He has long abandoned the belief that one must speak in pious platitudes about doing what the framers intended, or not legislating from the bench.
- The word pious fits because Republicans really do worship the top 1 percent and the Wall Street tycoons like Romney who manipulate money but don't actually build anything or create net new jobs.
- It reached the ears of a certain pious man that there abode in such a town a blacksmith, who could put his hand into the fire and pull out the iron red-hot, without the flames doing him aught of hurt. 482
- -- At last, my mother could no longer bear to see me perplex and vex myself in my fruitless search for the letter, and confessed that while we were talking the preceding day, finding that no arguments or persuasions of hers had had any effect, she had determined on what she called a pious fraud: so, while