From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
1.
... pious side.
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
He browbeat everybody, and everybody expected that
he'd soon get drunk -- for at the time, you see, A.A. was on the pious side.
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