Crossword-Solution: PIOUS 5 letters, 132 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
Pious a. Of or pertaining to piety; exhibiting piety; reverential;
dutiful; religious; devout; godly.
Pious a. Practiced under the pretext of religion; prompted by
mistaken piety; as, pious errors; pious frauds.

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PIOUS anagram OPUSI

We have 132 clues for the answer “PIOUS”

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" . . . the ___ frauds of friendship": Fielding 1 answer
Affecting virtue 1 answer
Apt homophone of a papal name 1 answer
Befitting a saint. 1 answer
Conspicuously religious 1 answer
Conspicuously reverent 1 answer
Devoted to the divine 1 answer
Dutifully reverent 1 answer
Epithet for Louis I, with "The" 1 answer
Exhibiting fear, in a way 1 answer
Exuding reverence 1 answer
Falsely earnest or sincere 1 answer
God-loving 1 answer
Hypocritically virtuous 1 answer
Like Eleazer Wheelock 1 answer
Like a churchgoer 1 answer
Like a huge fan of ministry and the church 1 answer
Like preachers 1 answer
Observant, in a way 1 answer
Opposite of "profane" 1 answer
Overly devout 1 answer
Profane's antithesis 1 answer
Quite devout 1 answer
Really reverent 1 answer
Religiously devoted 1 answer
Steadfastly devout 1 answer
Striving for sainthood 1 answer
Too devout 1 answer
Unabashedly devout 1 answer
Very reverent 1 answer
Very religious 2 answers
God-fearing 2 answers
devoted to god 2 answers
Religions 2 answers
Devoutly religious 2 answers
Awfully good 2 answers
Monklike 2 answers
Deeply respectful 2 answers
Very observant 3 answers
Very devout 3 answers
CHURCHGOING 4 answers
Highly observant 4 answers
prayerful 6 answers
Reverential 8 answers
holier-than-thou 9 answers
A SICKENING SANCTIMONIOUS SMILE 10 answers
DEVOUT PETITION 10 answers
A SELF-RIGHTEOUS OR SANCTIMONIOUS PERSON 10 answers
A GOD-FEARING AND LAW-ABIDING PEOPLE H.L.MENCKEN 11 answers
DEVOUT WISHES FOR THEIR SUCCESS 11 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PIOUS (5)

Which that thou mayst beleeve, and be confirmd, Ere thou from hence depart, know I am sent To shew thee what shall come in future dayes To thee and to thy Ofspring; good with bad Expect to hear, supernal Grace contending With sinfulness of Men; thereby to learn True patience, and to temper joy with fear And pious sorrow, equally enur’d By moderation either state to beare, Prosperous or adverse: so shalt thou lead Safest thy life, and best prepar’d endure Thy mortal passage when it comes.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
Finally, my benevolent master, to use his own words, “set her adrift to take care of herself.” Here was a recently-converted man, holding on upon the mother, and at the same time turning out her helpless child, to starve and die! Master Thomas was one of the many pious slaveholders who hold slaves for the very charitable purpose of taking care of them.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992
The remainder may perhaps be applied to purposes equally valuable hereafter, or not impossibly may be worked up, so far as they go, into a regular history of Salem, should my veneration for the natal soil ever impel me to so pious a task.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
Now whenever things are so that a lot of people feel they ought to be doing something, the weak, and those who go weak with a lot of complicated thinking, always make for a sort of do-nothing religion, very pious and superior, and submit to persecution and the will of the Lord.
The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992
There were several books on a shelf; one lay beside the tea-things open, and Utterson was amazed to find it a copy of a pious work, for which Jekyll had several times expressed a great esteem, annotated, in his own hand, with startling blasphemies.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 1992

Quotes with PIOUS (3)

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.
Jose Marti
The making of miracles to edification was as ardently admired by pious Victorians as it was sternly discouraged by Jesus of Nazareth. Not that the Victorians were unique in this respect. Modern writers also indulge in edifying miracles though they generally prefer to use them to procure unhappy endings, by which piece of thaumaturgy they win the title of realists.
Dorothy L. Sayers The Mind of the Maker
Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on vague liberal slogans and pious programs gestated in the smoke of confabulation. There can be no peace on earth without the kind of inner change that brings man back to his "right mind." p. 31
Thomas Merton Gandhi On Non-Violence
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 131 times in crossword archives (1954–2025).