pious
虔诚的,虔诚,虔诚的人,虔诚的教徒
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Definitions
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- : having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for God or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations.
- : characterized by a hypocritical concern with virtue or religious devotion; sanctimonious.
- : practiced or used in the name of real or pretended religious motives, or for some ostensibly good object; falsely earnest or sincere: a pious deception.
- : of or relating to religious devotion; sacred rather than secular: pious literature.
- : having or showing appropriate respect or regard for parents or others.
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Examples
West also coaxes pious verses out of colleagues, including Jay Electronica, Jadakiss, and Roddy Ricch.
After the past year, moms know for a fact that we’re all vulnerable and that our behaviors are shaped not just by our personal choices and pious parenting philosophies, but also by forces well beyond our individual control.
The future president adored his pious mother, who encouraged his early stage performances.
They were beautiful, light-skinned, polite and pious Christians — just the sort of formerly enslaved they liked to showcase in anti-slavery events.
Yet for a pious Muslim believer, the experience of those states was bad to the point of being catastrophic.
There was lot of promiscuity in my family, but everyone was pretending that they were pious and perfect.
And then, using the language of the pious against them, he declares, “We know that God is on our side.”
Ironically, the old religious view made room for a not particularly pious variety of macho “justice”-seeking.
I had dated non-Jews before, but none went so far as to decorate their home with such blatantly pious trinkets.
He was learned, benevolent and pious, and author of several religious works.
It is by my order that the Turks are being left a free hand to carry out this pious duty.