piously

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What the “One World” broadcast managed was to replicate something old-fashioned: a big, corny, mass-media entertainment, one that piously affirmed what feel like bedrock, mainstream values.

From New York Times • May 6, 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

“I wouldn’t want to put them to any trouble,” she went on piously.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman