<p><strong>Adjective:</strong></p><ul><li>having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for God or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations.</li><li>characterized by a hypocritical concern with virtue or religious devotion; sanctimonious.</li><li>practiced or used in the name of real or pretended religious motives, or for some ostensibly good object; falsely earnest or sincere.</li><li>of or relating to religious devotion; sacred rather than secular: pious literature.</li><li>having or showing appropriate respect or regard for parents or others.</li></ul>