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词汇 pious fraud
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Definition of pious fraud in English:

pious fraud

noun
  • A deception intended to benefit those deceived, especially to strengthen religious belief.

    (尤指为强化宗教信仰而实施对受骗者有益的)善意的欺骗,虔诚的欺骗

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Liberty of thinking, and of expressing our thoughts, is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds, on which it is commonly founded.
    • The staff's reaction made me suspicious in turn, since I have more than once found a wary attitude masking pious fraud.
    • Of these, some may have been the effect of imagination applied to natural markings in rock, while others may have been pious frauds.
    • It is the social duty of the few to fabricate and defend these noble lies and pious frauds for the well-being of society.
    • Some of these pious frauds go so far as to claim that evolution is false and not scientific.
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