impiety

Mr. Stuttard, an accomplished theater director, departs from this scholarship by staging these events as a Greek tragedy, where the hero—in this case, Pericles’ Athens itself—is brought low by divine forces offended by impiety.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

Just as the campaign began in 415 BCE, Alcibiades’s political enemies in Athens accused him of impiety and treason, and he fled to Sparta to avoid a trial.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

She was known for making provocative statements in class, such as dismissing as a political stunt Socrates’ famous apology at his trial for impiety and corruption.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 29, 2021

So, he’d ask a person who was on their way to court to accuse someone of impiety exactly what they meant by “piety”.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 19, 2017

At this shocking impiety, the tumult died away.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

Science is rigorous, evidence-based with double-checked conclusions, uncontaminated by moral suspicion of impieties.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2022

This “cool, cerebral book about a cool, cerebral talent,” Garner writes, “unpeels the way that Kubrick’s movies, packed as they are with impieties, challenge, infuriate and entertain.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2020

She is a poet of steel shavings, of semidetached feeling, of unexpected links and impieties and unpropitious implications.

From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2020

Whenever panic about my hidden impieties set in, which was rather often, I told myself: It’s just a small community in a big Manhattan.

From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2017

Would she had done so—not for his sake or yet for hers—but now, even now, while the impieties were hot on his burning lips!

From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Sir Hall Caine