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US
/ˈpaɪəsɫi/
]
[ UK /pˈaɪəsli/ ]
[ UK /pˈaɪəsli/ ]
ADVERB
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in a devout and pious manner
she was devoutly Catholic
How To Use piously In A Sentence
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- I will pray piously, I believe God will let me find the truth of life.
- The Baroness (as she was known after her marriage to a shifty nobleman) and her friends worshipped novelty, inappropriateness, audacity, not piously but with ferocious abandon.
- He could smell the pepper that had been copiously added to the sauce and salivated.
- They seem to you inert, flabby, weakly envious, foolishly obstinate, impiously mutinous, and many other things.
- The groups at the conference spoke piously of their fondness for democracy.
- The old image of Dickens, fostered by his surviving family, as a benign paterfamilias and as a man piously wedded to Victorian domestic virtues was thus tarnished.
- That they then get up the next day and talk piously about ‘family values’ is the part that should disturb us the most.
- Gratefully, I copiously peppered my dish, and returned the pepper grinder to the young man, thanking him.
- Salads are piquantly dressed, potatoes sautéed in duck fat are copiously served and the house wine, a young Cotes du Rhone, is more than adequate.