All 9 Uses of
pious
in
Arrowsmith
- They danced hand in hand about the living-room of the fraternity, piously assuring one another, "He'll use it—it's all right—he'll get through or get hanged!"
Chpt 3 (definition 1) *piously = clinging to a sincere wish that is highly unlikely
- Her father, Andrew Jackson Tozer, sometimes known as Jackass Tozer; owner of the bank, of the creamery, and an elevator, therefore the chief person in town; pious at Wednesday evening prayer-meeting, fussing over every penny he gave to Leora or her mother.
Chpt 6 (definition 2)pious = highly religious
- The bed in his room was lumpy but covered with a chaste figured spread, and the flowery pitcher and bowl rested on a cover embroidered in red with lambs, frogs, water lilies, and a pious motto.
Chpt 9 (definition 2)pious = religious or moral
- He alleged that he was a licensed pharmacist but he so mangled prescriptions that Martin burst into the store and addressed him piously.
Chpt 15 (definition 3) *piously = in a self-righteous or holier-than-thou manner
- Mrs. Tredgold, best natured as she was least pious of women, adopted her complete.
Chpt 22 (definition 2)pious = religious
- God give me a restlessness whereby I may neither sleep nor accept praise till my observed results equal my calculated results or in pious glee I discover and assault my error.
Chpt 26 (definition 2) *pious = highly religious and highly moral
- He walked out of the McGurk Building in a melancholy, deprecatory way, with one breeches leg bulging over his riding-boots; and however piously he tried, he never remembered to button his blouse over the violet-flowered shirts which, he often confided, you could buy ever so cheap on Eighth Avenue.
Chpt 27 (definition 2)piously = earnestly attempting to do the right thing
- The line of trucks roared down to Carib, the rat-catchers sitting atop, singing pious hymns.
Chpt 34 (definition 2)pious = religious
- I am a pious agnostic.
Chpt 34 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (pious as in: cling to the pious hope) (describing a hope or wish as) sincere, but highly unlikely
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(2) (pious as in: a good, pious woman) religious or highly moral
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(3) (pious as in: a pious hypocrite) self-righteous (acting as though one is, or believing one is highly moral when it is not true)