PIOUS in MAIN STREET - verbalworkout.com

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Definition

behaving in a highly moral or religious manner

or less commonly: behaving highly moral in a self-righteous or holier-than-thou manner

pious = highly moral or religious

Pious families in Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, the Dakotas send their children thither, and Blodgett protects them from the wickedness of the universities.
Chapter 1 (12% in)
He was, in fact, a museum specimen of what a small town, a well-disciplined public school, a tradition of hearty humor, and a pious mother could produce from the material of a courageous and ingenious mind.
Chapter 9 (47% in)
It was impossible to sit on it without folding the hands and listening piously.
Chapter 11 (7% in)
Mrs. Bogart spoke of the eloquence of the Reverend Mr. Zitterel, the coldness of cold days, the price of poplar wood, Dave Dyer's new hair-cut, and Cy Bogart's essential piety.
Chapter 15 (45% in)
I goes in, pious as Widow Bogart, and sits still and never cracks a smile while the preacher is favoring us with his misinformation on evolution.
Chapter 26 (41% in)
The congregation had doffed their piety.
Chapter 30 (50% in)
A rich farming-center in New Jersey, off the railroad, furiously pious, ruled by old men, unbelievably ignorant old men, sitting about the grocery talking of James G. Blaine.
Chapter 37 (82% in)

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pious used in Main Street