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What words describe someone who practices his religion with devotion?
Examples pious examples
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Simple sentences
My wife is chaste and pious.
Tom is very pious.
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Also. a very pious man.
The pious gave themselves up to many a regrettable self-punishment.
You must keep me tormented with that cruelty you think so pious.
He don't think we'd do anything wasn't pious, does he?
Your church brothers look so pious.
Pious worship, sweet incense. and generous offerings approach their end.
That's no game for pious men, good citizens, law abiding lawyers, no.
The pious Commander bade me to bring you in.
The Order is pious and just - You said just, right?
Very pious, eh?
A pious woman like you with no blood in her veins might be shocked.
These pious, hopeful men, Mr. Chairman.
But above all, during his whole life and in any place where he lived, the pious Luigi most abhorred any talk or dealing with women, whose presence he avoided in such a way that whoever saw him thought he had a natural dislike of them.
You sicken me with your pious attitudes.
A pious little brat.
That's the most conventional, pretentious, pious speech I've ever heard.
Don't put me off with pious phrases, Father.
My affianced is a very noble and pious man.
But, Manuela, you are to be married to Don Pedro, the most pious the most upright.
You..are as pious as your God.
How pious.
In church, the choir was practising pious, festive songs from olden times.
The pious voice.
Why, you pious old scoundrel.
I'm through with you and I'm through with your. pious, mealy-mouthed, hypocritical religion.
So, this is the reason for your pious defense of your ancestors.
Pious Saint Monica.
A pious man.
Your faithful, your pious savages, nearly lynched me.
It's a pious matter, I dare not bring it before you.
And since his true faith made him a pious man down here we hope that, when in heaven, your kindness will give him a place in the angels choir.
That pious lady himself.
Go find me the most pious priest in town.
Send us your most pious priest.
News and current affairs
The possibility that a girl wearing a headscarf might in fact be rebelling against her parents and their kind of Islam, and that others might be deeply pious while being utterly revolted by gender discrimination or violence, is lost from view.
The concept of a dialogue between cultures is sometimes strained, or seems only a pious hope, because we ask it to do the impossible: solve inflamed political conflicts.
Rather than confront the political obstacles, Europe's leaders are hiding behind a mountain of pious, nonsensical rhetoric.
Instead, he found eager supporters among pious Protestants, for whom Jews belonged in their own holy land rather than in Europe.
Pious lies have been uncovered.
Until last year, many observers regarded R2P as at best a pious hope or a noble failure.
Indeed, pious Catholic Italian city-states were the cradle of early modern capitalism.
Pious Muslims - particularly those who believe that Turkey's urban development has created too much rent-seeking and too many easy fortunes - joined the demonstrations as well, as did some far-left groups.
Politicians would adopt the Baptists' pious rhetoric, while quietly taking campaign contributions from the criminals.
The Ottoman Empire raised funds from pious Muslims (and brought in German technicians) to lay a railway from Damascus to Medina.
Pious talk about reworking the UN sanctions is another version of the second alternative - that is, of doing nothing.
Pious lies have been uncovered. In France half a century ago, as the Cold War loomed, Charles de Gaulle easily convinced the French that they were heroic during World War II because he was heroic.
Pious Western sermons about the need to form a unified, democratically elected government sound utterly irrelevant, given the extent of social and political fragmentation.
Candidates deemed insufficiently pious or lacking loyalty to the country's theocratic constitution cannot run.