He behaved hypocritically by praying piously when people were watching.
But we may piously believe that God makes our prayers known to them.
When the master returns from his journey, he learns that the first two servants had wisely and piously invested their talents, and they had doubled their money.
With its emphasis on simple living and an end to class divisions, the government's propaganda is more than a little reminiscent of the piously egalitarian early days of the Islamic revolution.
Conti kneeled and crossed himself piously.
I piously think of myself as being without sin in the erosion department. Guess what.
In temples, people kneel piously, like the Loess bronze he worships, which can increase the thickness of real gold and silver.
In ancient Macedonia, the young monarch Alexander the Great, who died almost at the same age as Emperor Xiaowen, always crawled piously before the gods there, which was also in search of a ruling qualification outside the military.
Life is to bend down and bow down and piously pick up the shining broken grains. Patchwork and tear.
He always grabbed the fence piously and hungrily and listened carefully to every word the manager said, but when the manager showed the pictures, he opened the fence every time and sat back in the haystack with a sigh.
Unexpectedly, whenever a pedestrian sees a donkey on the road, he kneels piously on both sides and worships it.
This was a hardheaded materialist claim, not a piously idealistone.
It's the old conscientious versus indulgent battle, the angel piously perched on one shoulder and the devil giggling on the other.
The priests piously consecrated the robbery with a hymn.
