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In a typical sally, Nixon piously intoned, “I know what it means to be poor.”

As soon as any become vacant, I shall take care to provide for them as speedily as possible, as your Majesty so piously orders me.

At the middle altar was the mandarin, piously engaged in prayer, while two stood beside him, fanning him with large fans.

The festivals were more numerous in Rome than in Greece, and perhaps were more piously observed.

But at a period more piously illiterate, things of this shadowy nature were linked very closely to objects of a material kind.

At one side of the chancel arch there is a reading desk, which looks piously at a pulpit, made just like it, on the opposite side.

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On this page you'll find 48 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to piously, such as: accurately, correctly, decently, duly, equally, and equitably.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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