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Definition
religious or highly moral
- Dear, don't speak so bitter about 'pious' people.Chapter 32 (70% in)
pious = highly religious and moral
- 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. Children tumbled under the tables, and...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)
pious = highly religious
pious = highly religious and moral
piously = in a manner that appears religious
piety = highly religious and moral behavior
pious = highly religious and moral
piety = religious (or worshipping) behavior
pious = highly religious
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