pious 的定义
- having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for God or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations.
- characterized by a hypocritical concern with virtue or religious devotion; sanctimonious.
- practiced or used in the name of real or pretended religious motives, or for some ostensibly good object; falsely earnest or sincere: a pious deception.
- of or relating to religious devotion; sacred rather than secular: pious literature.
- having or showing appropriate respect or regard for parents or others.
pious 近义词
dedicated, religious
更多pious例句
- West also coaxes pious verses out of colleagues, including Jay Electronica, Jadakiss, and Roddy Ricch.
- After the past year, moms know for a fact that we’re all vulnerable and that our behaviors are shaped not just by our personal choices and pious parenting philosophies, but also by forces well beyond our individual control.
- The future president adored his pious mother, who encouraged his early stage performances.
- They were beautiful, light-skinned, polite and pious Christians — just the sort of formerly enslaved they liked to showcase in anti-slavery events.
- Yet for a pious Muslim believer, the experience of those states was bad to the point of being catastrophic.
- There was lot of promiscuity in my family, but everyone was pretending that they were pious and perfect.
- And then, using the language of the pious against them, he declares, “We know that God is on our side.”
- Ironically, the old religious view made room for a not particularly pious variety of macho “justice”-seeking.
- I had dated non-Jews before, but none went so far as to decorate their home with such blatantly pious trinkets.
- He was learned, benevolent and pious, and author of several religious works.
- It is by my order that the Turks are being left a free hand to carry out this pious duty.
- The minister of his village is at his bedside, preparing him by pious exhortations for the great journey.
- In all cases there is a stairway, often long and steep, crumbling with time and worn with the feet of pious generations.
- If he takes a pious subject, it is to show you in what a fine way he, Peter Paul Rubens, can treat it.