pious platitude

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   insincere talk about religion or morals

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What does pious platitude mean?

pious platitude means "insincere talk about religion or morals".

What is another word for pious platitude?

Close synonyms include cant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pious platitude a common word?

pious platitude is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.