Adjective : a pious deception. ,pious literature. From Dictionary.com.
What I do object to is the Democratic party’s hypocrisy in piously condemning lobbyists in public, while eagerly taking their money in private. From Wordnik.com. [Of *course* K Street thrived in 2009. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState] Reference
He also attacked the Government, saying President F W de Klerk who so "piously" scolded the ANC should first clean up his own backyard. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The BRC said that for the past decade it had helped rural communities resist policies introduced by the very party now "piously" taking up this call. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
I "-- piously --" hope that I may be in my grave before that day comes. ". From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
"Lord, how folks will lie!" admired Keziah, piously. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
A more profoundly, piously conscientious man never lived. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
"There's nothing I wouldn't do for my friends," said Jim, piously. From Wordnik.com. [Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour] Reference
He wrote learnedly, preached painfully, lived piously, died peacefully. From Wordnik.com. [Quaint Epitaphs] Reference
Bernardin refused to piously dissemble about his own fears and failing health. From Wordnik.com. [The Art Of Dying Well] Reference
"Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might," he added piously. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
He threw the tin through the broken pane and added piously, "hope it hits someone.". From Wordnik.com. [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference
"Nabocklish!" said Jem, as he knelt down and piously said his prayers for the night. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
The others looked at him helplessly, and some, thinking of the devil, piously crossed themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
He carefully computed and piously distributed the income of his revenues at four terms in the year. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
He would thereupon piously point out that he, of course, didn't think this was a bad country at all. From Wordnik.com. [A Shockproof Electorate] Reference
Undeterred by the greed of the bishop, Rodolphe piously preserved the traditions of his predecessors. From Wordnik.com. [The Counts of Gruyère] Reference
Louises and Richards and Fredericks, who piously fought for the redemption of the Redeemer's sepulchre. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866] Reference
All relationships receded in a world of impermanence, said the atheist bombastic to himself most piously. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
This wasn't world music, some piously promoted, preciously marketed artifact of someone else's revolution. From Wordnik.com. [Se Habla Rock And Roll? You Will Soon.] Reference
People who live in these enlightened days are piously shocked at the amount of drinking described by Dickens. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
She knelt down, piously folded her two ungloved hands, plump, perfumed, rosy, laden with rings -- but let that pass. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Clinton, who piously vowed to end precisely the kind of behavior of which he and his party now stand accused, is another. From Wordnik.com. [Three Ethics Questions] Reference
Fuller's brief summary is that he 'wrote learnedly, preached painfully, lived piously, died peaceably, Anno Domini 1572.'. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
Methodists both piously combed their hair over their foreheads, and clipped it in a straight line just above the eyebrows. From Wordnik.com. [With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back] Reference
Those aren't the kind of gifts we can ask for from anyone, I explained piously, crossing a laptop off my own internal wish list. From Wordnik.com. [My Christmas Confessions] Reference
The woman, with a demure countenance, seems very piously considering how she can contrive to pick the embroidered beau's pocket. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
The beliefs of childhood piously inculcated in your heart suddenly reawaken; a vague perfume of incense again penetrates the air. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Undertaken piously to guarantee voters '"rights" or to prevent "fraud," it would erode popular confidence in elections' integrity. From Wordnik.com. [A CLOSE VOTE? LET'S HOPE NOT.] Reference
Angoulême had certainly labored piously and assiduously to open her brother's eyes to the true character of his fanatical advisers. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
Monsieur -- Well, seriously, I should like the vicar's mat piously spread upon your bed, to keep us both warm together, this very evening. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
But I would know him now only by his voice, his breath, and the rosewater perfume used by men who piously do their ablutions several times a day before prayers, but rarely shower. From Wordnik.com. [118 Days, 12 Hours, 54 Minutes] Reference
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