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
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 claimed to have learned a lesson from that episode, and now says piously that “taxpayers absolutely have the right to know official travel costs.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2017
“The American people absolutely deserve access to the White House,” Epshteyn remarks piously, “and they should continue to pose their questions.”
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2017
My parents seemed to me piously simple—like the nuns I remembered—unwilling to entertain intellectual challenges.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
