Decent and Pious

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Decent adjective - Conforming to a high standard of morality or virtue.

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Pious and decent are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pious" instead an adjective "Decent".

Nearby Words: decency, decently

Pious adjective - Firm in one's allegiance to someone or something.

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Decent and pious are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Decent" instead an adjective "Pious".

Nearby Words: piety, piousness, piously

Older Than Feudalism: The Book of Job of The Bible is one long tale of horrible misfortunes that beset a decent, pious man because God and the devil made a bet on whether he could be broken.

Source: Break The Cutie / Religion and Mythology
Ned's first flanderization was into an obsessively pious, painfully generous, obnoxiously friendly milquetoast who was still a pretty decent person, if incredibly boring.

Source: Flanderization / Western Animation
Character Exaggeration: In the film, the transmogrification of the saintly Ubertino da Casale (a minor character) from a well-educated, decent, pious (if slightly fanatical) old man to a creepy, obtuse Butt Monkey who hits on Adso and is ridiculed by William.

Source: Literature / The Name of the Rose

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