piously

[ US /ˈpaɪəsɫi/ ]
[ UK /pˈa‍ɪ‍əsli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in a devout and pious manner
    she was devoutly Catholic
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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.
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