Synonym: believing, devout, faithful, religious, reverent. Antonym: impious. Similar words: anxious, noxious, envious, obvious, dubious, curious, various, precious. Meaning: ['paɪəs] 
adj. 1. having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity 2. devoutly religious.
adj. 1. having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity 2. devoutly religious. 
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1. Alexander is a pious follower of the faith.
2. He was brought up by pious female relatives.
3. He was a quiet, pious man.
4. She is a pious follower of the faith, never missing her prayers.
5. He dismissed his critics as pious do-gooders.
6. Ella was a pious, earnest woman.
7. Quit the pious apologies - I know you don't really care.
8. What we need is not manifestos of pious intentions, but real action.
9. He dismissed his critics as pious do-gooders who were afraid to face the facts.
10. Something about this pious supplication troubled her.
11. There are 613 commandments required of a pious Jew.
12. But these were merely pious hopes.
13. Charles's parents were pious and uneducated folk.
14. This may be a pious hope.
15. Magnus the Pious is one of the most famous historical figures in the Empire and one of its greatest Emperors.
16. But Democrats applauded(Sentencedict.com), generally taking the pious view that the White House can never be above the law.
17. Donations by pious laymen doubtless continued, and Glastonbury and Canterbury not only survived, but did so as wealthy churches.
18. They are not merely abstract theory or pious statements of intent that look good posted on the staff notice board.
19. Pious legend. After assisting in the burial of a martyr, this newly baptized soldier was taken before the emperor.
20. Ethelred was not the most pious of kings, and his clashes with the church were stormy and frequent.
21. It is a document written as a pious exercise, and its discipline and restraint spring from that.
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22. These performed just as required, with pious platitudes followed by prevaricating and tut-tutting in a most gratifying manner.
23. Such reforms seem likely to remain little more than pious hopes.
24. All these agreements and ideas remain little more than pious hopes in the present climate.
25. He stood in high favour at the court of Lewis the Pious.
26. Lucien had believed commitment to the Vibrancy involved a strict and pious discipline.
27. Fisher found a superb clip of Bernard running rings round pious Esther Rantzen in 1977.
28. The weak are bullied by the strong, the little by the big, the pious by the irreligious.
29. Given both these features, written policies are still likely to remain pious statements of intent unless supported by financial mechanisms.
30. The international community has so far salved its conscience by voicing a succession of pious hopes.
More similar words: anxious, noxious, envious, obvious, dubious, curious, various, precious, specious, nefarious, imperious, previous, officious, glorious, bumptious, ambitious, penurious, audacious, conscious, atrocious, voracious, delirious, religious, judicious, obnoxious, obviously, oblivious, vivacious, dubiously, incommodious.