5. sarcastic, caustic, mordant, acerbic, acrid, cutting, stinging, mordacious, incisive; cruel, painful, hurtful, agonizing, excruciating; intense, fierce, pietism, n. 1. sanctimony, sanctimoniousness, Tar-tuffery, formalism, hypocrisy, pharisaism, pharisee-ism; self-righteousness, Inf. goody-goodiness, Inf. goodiness; false piety, excessive piety, religiosity; dissimulation, feigning, dissembling; Machiavellism, Machiavellianism, double-dealing; cant, lip service, mouth honor, mealy-mouthedness; affectation, pretense, false pretense, bluff.
2. piety, piousness, religiousness, devotedness, devoutness. See piety (def. 1).
piety, n. 1. devoutness, godliness, saintliness, spirituality, holiness, sanctity, religiousness, devotion, faithfulness, religiosity, pietism, religious zeal.
2. respect, veneration, reverence, awe, regard, deference, obeisance, dedication.
3. dutifulness, rectitude, goodness, righteousness, virtuousness, purity, chastity, humility, grace.
pig, n. 1. hog, sow, boar, razor back; peccary, wart-hog, babirusa; porker, grunter, oinker, tusker; swine, barrow; shoat, shote, piglet, pigling, piggy, suckling-pig, hogling.
2. pork, pork chops, ham, bacon, pigs' feet, pigs' knuckles.
3. Informal, a. glutton, cormorant, gormand, eater; trencherman, big eater, wolf, Inf. hog. b. vulgarian, barbarian, boor; sloven, slattern, frump.
pigeon, n. 1. bird, dove, squab, homing pigeon, carrier pigeon.
2. Slang, dupe, gull, gudgeon, Brit. Dial, cull, Archaic. cully, Inf. chump, SI. sap, SI. schnook, SI. schlemiel, SI. boob; greenhorn, sitting duck, easy or soft mark, easy or soft target, Inf. sucker, Inf. cinch,
SI. patsy, U.S. SI. fall guy, SI. softie or soft touch, SI. pushover.
pigeonhole, n. 1. compartment, partition, section, part, department; area, sphere, space, place.
2. cubbyhole, cubby, niche, nook; drawer, tray, box, bin, hold, receptacle, bunker; booth, stall, cubicle, carrel, slot, alcove; closet, locker, storage space.
-v. 3. file, interfile, insert, put in place, replace.
4. postpone, put off, table, shelve; sleep on it, let the matter stand.
5. catalog, categorize, classify, codify, alphabetize; rank, group, sort, assort, order, arrange; slot, peg.
piggish, adj. 1. hoggish, porcine, swinish, piglike, hoglike; coarse, boorish, animal, animalistic, beastly.
2. greedy, gluttonous, ravenous, voracious, devouring, edacious, cormorant, rapacious; insatiable, insatiate, unquenchable, open-mouthed; glutting, gorging, omnivorous, crapulous.
3. filthy, dirty, foul, slimy, Inf. gloppy, SI. cruddy, mucky, muddy; sloppy, sloshy, sludgy, miry; musty, smelly, rotten.
4. unwashed, unhygienic, unclean, bedraggled, slovenly, unkempt, sloppy, sleazy; squalid, wretched, shabby, deteriorated, ramshackle; miserable, uncared-for, dingy, SI. slummy.
pigheaded, adj. 1. stubborn, stubborn as a mule, mulish, muleheaded, bullheaded, bullish, headstrong; willful, self-willed, contrary, perverse, wrongheaded, cross-grained, balky, uncooperative, froward, refractory, recalcitrant, contumacious; stupid, dense, blunt, crass, undiscerning, uncomprehending; moronic, idiotic, imbecilic, mindless, witless, brainless; slow-witted, numskulled, thick-skulled, cloddish.