piety
Example Sentences
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“There’s a lot of baggage wrapped up in piety,” Mr. Sasse says.
Corruption came as easily to them as piety did.
Donatello, the embodiment of an Old World defined more by superstition than piety and by tradition than goodness, lacks the character to withstand Miriam’s inner darkness.
Opponents say composting humans is potentially toxic and lacks piety.
As traumatic as such piety might seem, Jonathan Sheehan’s “On the Altar” shows convincingly that human sacrifice and its multiple meanings and practices have shaped the intellectual history of the West.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
