piousness

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Noun
  • The Erosion Of Trust Through Inconsistent Words Many people associate the breakdown of trust with major betrayals like infidelity or deception.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Warrantless search and seizure, deception, untrammeled use of force.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Parham, a former Methodist married to a woman from a Quaker family, had come to Kansas from Iowa, after touring holiness camps and talking with global missionaries, some of whom told him about seeing recent converts slip into trances and speak in tongues.
    Casey Cep, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
  • In this novel no one of these paths is holier than another; Wood is more invested in noticing the human pursuit of holiness itself.
    Lauren Christensen, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Beneath the sarcasm and satire, there appears to be a genuine desire to challenge assumptions, expose hypocrisy, and shine a light on uncomfortable truths and double standards.
    Margie Warrell, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
  • The play becomes a delta itself, where tributary identities—Muslim, Yoruba, traditional, modern—mingle and, when the priest’s hypocrisy is exposed, surge toward confrontation.
    Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Venus and Saturn in Pisces urge you to explore love in ways that transcend the mundane, whether through travel, spirituality or learning.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Durk’s growing influence in prison underscores a dramatic shift in the rapper’s approach to adversity—one that is rooted in resilience, spirituality, and community.
    Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Defense attorney Alan Jackson told the jury the collision never happened, and the investigation into Read was riddled with errors, bias, incompetence and deceit from the start.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 24 Apr. 2025
  • In economic markets, maintaining a consumer’s freedom of choice requires regulations against coercion and deceit.
    Michael Gregory, The Conversation, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Ivy-as-Marilyn is an inconsiderate, amphetamine guzzling faux-intellectual whose devotion to the acting craft is presented as a vainglorious affectation.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The interaction between Briony and Jamie starts off amiably, with Jamie needling Briony for her posh affectations.
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • What To Know According to court documents reviewed by NewsNation, Piccolo is accused of driving up to a woman in Manatee County, stopping his vehicle under the pretense of asking for directions and then exposing himself.
    Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Moore befriended Shakespeare in 2008 under the pretense of writing a book about him, but the project never materialized.
    Nicole Acosta, People.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Their pretensions are witheringly lampooned in this comic thriller about Ronnie, a Pakistani American who tags along to the desert enclave with her friend turned life coach, Marley.
    Calum Marsh, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
  • By contrast, Vito—Genovese, that is, not Corleone—pushes drugs aggressively, resorts to violence early and often, and scoffs at any pretensions of legitimacy, especially given the legalized thuggery of the politicians with whom Frank has curried favor.
    Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2025
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“Piousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/piousness. Accessed 1 May. 2025.

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