piousness
Example Sentences
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I don’t find piousness and pedagogy interesting in art, and neither do children.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2022
Yet, in baritone Michael Chioldi’s Seattle debut, his sadism wrapped in performative piousness is eerily familiar.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 22, 2021
Turnstile, a five-piece Maryland band, are not precious about a genre typically known for its rigidity and piousness.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 12, 2018
Bucar notes that when a culture invests so much of its identity in the appearance, in the piousness of women, it also is investing women with a cultural and social power.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 23, 2017
There ain't no piousness stickin' out on him fer folks to hang their hat on, neither.
From The Gold Girl by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx
