piously

Example Sentences

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It’s into this context that Judge Barrett steps as a piously Catholic woman and a Supreme Court nominee.

From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2020

In particular, he declared piously, Libra was designed to help émigrés in the rich world to send money to their relatives in the poor world without being ripped off by unscrupulous capitalists.

From The Guardian • Jul. 21, 2019

The show’s wall text piously bills this design as taking a moral stand that chooses cultural transparency over opacity.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2019

He had always been piously against “profiting off the failures of others,” as he put it.

From Slate • Nov. 27, 2018

“Breaded veal cutlets are very nutritious,” Milo admonished him piously.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller