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Example sentences for: piously

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It was also piously believed that speaking truth would always prevail over evil; language was not only a moral weapon, but in Shakespeare's fecund and often irreverent imagination, occasion for exuberant revelry:
It would be very easy for me to say, piously, that I would have sacrificed my job rather than make the recordings, but I am a single 24-year-old without children, and I can afford to take a more principled stance.
What some piously accept and others try to explain is to Aharon Appelfeld "a central event in many people's lives that has become a metaphor for our century.
Though they piously claim not to be doing so, Herrnstein and Murray leave readers with the distinct impression that IQ is the cause of economic success and failure, and that genetic difference explains the black-white IQ gap.
Of course, both the president and the GOP leadership have piously embraced the notion of a "lockbox" for the trust fund surpluses, but each doubts the strength of the other's padlock construction.