piousness

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Noun
  • In the beginning, each player is secretly assigned as either a Faithful or a Traitor, setting the stage for an intense game of deception, strategy and survival.
    Jordana Comiter, People.com, 7 Mar. 2025
  • After weeks of treachery and deception, the final roundtable has been viewed, and the winner or winners for The Traitors Season 3 have been revealed.
    Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 6 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • For some, holiness has an otherness quality set apart from all (or most) of humanity.
    Walt Shelton, Austin American-Statesman, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The Ethiopian crosses symbolize eternal life and connection, and given that a sanctuary is a place for refuge and safety and holiness, Makonnen’s artwork provides some semblance of that for the spirits of the fallen and slain after their lives have ended.
    Shantay Robinson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • China and other rivals have gained yet another example to add to their long narrative of U.S. capriciousness and hypocrisy.
    Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Unfolding with a tense, uncanny rhythm, the film knocks you over the head with its cynical ideas about class, privilege and the hypocrisies of white guilt.
    Beatrice Loayza, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Others may decide to get involved in spirituality or religion.
    Skyler Caruso, People.com, 8 Mar. 2025
  • From Senegal to Angola, Africans were using the surf, the ocean, and rivers as a means of recreation, spirituality, community building, and commerce.
    Outside Online, Outside Online, 5 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Much of the series’ pathos hinges on the growing schism between mother and son as Kanan begins to understand the horrors of Raq’s machinations and deceit (including tricking him into assassinating his biological father), leading him to try to go into business for himself.
    Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Thirteen showed signs of possible deceit or suspicious activity.
    Donna McGuire, Ian Cummings, and Glenn E. Rice, Kansas City Star, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Slumming with her sister in San Francisco after her life with her Madoff-like ex in New York implodes, Jasmine Francis isn't quite willing to let go of the affectations that come with living in high society.
    EW Staff, EW.com, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Unlike Chase, Aykroyd worked hard to retain Carter’s affectations and appearance, while also adding a slyness that implied a deeper calculation.
    Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 15 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance invited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to Washington under the pretense of negotiating a peace deal.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
  • But in the media-state singularity, there is not even the pretense of space between the two worlds.
    Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Rabelais points out that there are oddities in the world that cannot fit into any classification scheme, more things in our heaven and earth than are dreamt of in either the medieval pretensions of the summa or the ambitious early modern bibliographic machines.
    Brendan Fitzgerald, Longreads, 27 Dec. 2024
  • So often a potential title decider, the only team here that have title pretensions are Liverpool.
    Andy Jones, The Athletic, 18 Feb. 2025
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“Piousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/piousness. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.

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