[pahy-uh
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| 1. | having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for God or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations. |
| 2. | characterized by a hypocritical concern with virtue or religious devotion; sanctimonious. |
| 3. | practiced or used in the name of real or pretended religious motives, or for some ostensibly good object; falsely earnest or sincere: a pious deception. |
| 4. | of or pertaining to religious devotion; sacred rather than secular: pious literature. |
| 5. | having or showing appropriate respect or regard for parents or others. |