Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Excessively religious, especially in a conspicuous or sentimental manner.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Excessively religious; unduly or morbidly occupied with religious ideas and emotions.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Superficially
religious , especially in an affected or sentimental way.
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Examples
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 It is, after all, not unheard of for convicts going before a parole board to profess a newly found spirituality, to the point of being religiose.
Martin Long: Haley Barbour's Unintentional Lesson: Keep Religion and Governance Separate Martin Long 2012
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It is, after all, not unheard of for convicts going before a parole board to profess a newly found spirituality, to the point of being religiose.
Martin Long: Haley Barbour's Unintentional Lesson: Keep Religion and Governance Separate Martin Long 2012
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The plan is to make healthcare a moral issue and he wants his religiose followers to take up the cry.
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It is, after all, not unheard of for convicts going before a parole board to profess a newly found spirituality, to the point of being religiose.
Martin Long: Haley Barbour's Unintentional Lesson: Keep Religion and Governance Separate Martin Long 2012
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 It is, after all, not unheard of for convicts going before a parole board to profess a newly found spirituality, to the point of being religiose.
Martin Long: Haley Barbour's Unintentional Lesson: Keep Religion and Governance Separate Martin Long 2012
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Leopardi grew up in the small town of Recanati, where his charming but stern father was the local grandee, a man who dressed in dandyish black every day and rued the day he had married his cold and religiose wife.
Giving new voice to Leopardi's songs of love and longing Michael Dirda 2010
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The supernaturalism of these railways can also shift from the religiose to the profane – witness the alarming Paul Delvaux mural of a girl in a white dress among rearing black engines in the station brasserie at Bruges.
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Leopardi grew up in the small town of Recanati, where his charming but stern father was the local grandee, a man who dressed in dandyish black every day and rued the day he had married his cold and religiose wife.
Giving new voice to Leopardi's songs of love and longing Michael Dirda 2010
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Minoranze religiose e diritti: percorsi in cento anni di storia degli ebrei e dei valdesi, 1848 – 1948.
Italy, Modern. 2009
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But the very fact that Time can relay such religiose twaddle without blushing or gagging is proof of how far the so-called Mainstream Media -- or M$M, as I've seen it abbreviated on certain blog-warrior sites -- has slid, or as Dizzy Dead would say, slud.
"What kind of a maniac puts eagles in a Christmas tree?": James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009
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