piety
Example Sentences
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Headstrong, queer and disinterested in Victorian pieties, she escaped her smothering Indianapolis family and headed to Chicago, where she hustled work as a bookseller and book reviewer.
From Los Angeles Times
Much of the public wanted a different take on war - and one that challenged solemn pieties at the heart of Official Remembrance.
From BBC
I marveled at how those marks of piety remained, just an hour away from the Rooms hotel’s sleek pool deck.
To embody the idea of filial piety to appeal to the Grand Queen Dowager, Yeon creates doenjang-guk, a traditional soybean paste stew, but adds two special ingredients: spinach and clams.
From Salon
“Punch” could easily have become a bog of pieties and earnest, uplifting lessons about the necessity of forgiveness.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
