adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
hope
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The international community has so far salved its conscience by voicing a succession of pious hopes .
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Criteria Unless there is a quantitative criterion there is no objective, only a pious hope of better times.
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But these were merely pious hopes .
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But in the present climate that is a somewhat pious hope .
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This may be a pious hope .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Ethelred was not the most pious of kings, and his clashes with the church were stormy and frequent.
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She reminded Corbett of a sweet, pious young nun he once knew.
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There are 613 commandments required of a pious Jew.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But Democrats applauded, generally taking the pious view that the White House can never be above the law.
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But, today, she gave almost pious attention to every scrape of the slate pencil.
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Charles's parents were pious and uneducated folk.
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Donations by pious laymen doubtless continued, and Glastonbury and Canterbury not only survived, but did so as wealthy churches.
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Galileo had written a pious preface in which he ridiculed the Copernican theory as wild and fantastic and contrary to Holy Scripture.
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It is recorded that he spent his income on the needy and for pious endeavors.
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The international community has so far salved its conscience by voicing a succession of pious hopes.
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They had to give in to so pious a purpose, and they agreed to wait until the work was finished.