piousness

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Noun
  • Watch on Deadline In the wake of his father’s disappearance at sea, Kojo, a young Ghanaian is drawn into a world of street gang and deception.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Directed by Su Biao, the comedy about a woman entangled in financial deception has remained a steady performer since its release on Dec. 31.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Historians said these denarii are particularly interesting because of their role in spreading the emperor’s propaganda message of his holiness and connection to the church, according to the museum.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 17 Jan. 2025
  • And as my character says, ambition is the moth of holiness.
    Jordan Riefe, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • He’s taken to publicly shaming GOP lawmakers on X and on Fox News, accusing them of hypocrisy by not supporting President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda.
    Lawrence Mower, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2025
  • But some pro-Israel and conservative influencers rushed to Musk’s defense, accusing Ocasio-Cortez and other progressives of hypocrisy for not loudly condemning Nazi sympathizers and salutes at pro-Palestinian protests.
    Andrew Lapin, Sun Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • With the sun conjunct Pluto in Aquarius — shaking up your 12th house of closure, dreams, healing and unconscious patterns — you’re empowered with an inner knowing and deep sense of spirituality.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Guests at their summer solstice wedding will get a sense of the couple’s own brand of spirituality.
    Tammy LaGorce, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Everything about Sebastien had been a deceit, a masquerade.
    Sheila Heti, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Without this ability, the digital landscape will remain increasingly vulnerable to manipulation and deceit.
    Steven Smith, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • In the 2010s, baking sourdough bread at home went from quirky, hippie affectation to a serious hobby.
    Meghan McCarron, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
  • That was just a bizarre affectation, a strange impression of a dancing horse that offered basically nothing constructive, and ultimately made his eventual miss look five times as stupid.
    Nick Miller, The Athletic, 9 July 2024
Noun
  • Popular on Variety Craig Sweeny’s screenplay strikes a frequently arch posture to accommodate this trickster protagonist, which undermines any pretense of seriousness elsewhere.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 25 Jan. 2025
  • To suggest that gimmickry somehow cancels a film’s worthiness plays into the nonsensical pretenses of awards season.
    Armond White, National Review, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • There were no pretensions of showmanship, no displays of braggadocio — just the hollow ringing of palms on goatskin.
    Taran Dugal, Rolling Stone, 16 Dec. 2024
  • The car comes equipped with the standard sensor suite for cars with pretensions to urban autonomy: lidars on the roof and around the front bumper, and radar and cameras just about everywhere else.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Dec. 2016
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“Piousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/piousness. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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