pious (n.)
pious (adj.)
- adoring
- affected
- angelic
- assured
- believing
- certain
- confident
- convinced
- dedicated
- devoted
- devout
- dogmatic
- dutiful
- faithful
- false
- fraudulent
- godlike
- godly
- good
- goody
- goody-goody
- holier-than-thou
- holy
- hypocritical
- insincere
- mealy-mouthed
- mealymouthed
- moral
- oily
- persuaded
- pharisaic
- pietistic
- pistic
- positive
- prayerful
- pretended
- priestly
- religious
- reverent
- reverential
- right-minded
- saintly
- sanctified
- sanctimonious
- satisfied
- secure
- self-righteous
- seraphic
- smarmy
- solemn
- spiritual
- sure
- theistic
- unctuous
- virtuous
- worshipful
With devotion's visage
And pious action we do sugar o'er
The devil himself.
When pious frauds and holy shifts
Are dispensations and gifts.
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
No solemn sanctimonious face I pull,
Nor think I'm pious when I'm only bilious;
Nor study in my sanctum supercilious,
To frame a Sabbath Bill or forge a Bull.
Drawing near her death, she sent most pious thoughts as harbingers to heaven; and her soul saw a glimpse of happiness through the chinks of her sickness-broken body.
