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impiety
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ungodliness |
| Synonyms: | blasphemy, godlessness, heresy, irreverence, profanity |
| Concept: | Impiety. |
| Category: | 3. Religious sentiments |
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-nouns
impiety; sin; irreverence; profaneness; profanity, profanation; blasphemy, desecration, sacrilege; scoffing., [Assumed piety] hypocrisy (falsehood) [more]; pietism, cant, pious fraud; lip devotion, lip service, lip reverence; misdevotion, formalism, austerity; sanctimony, sanctimoniousness; pharisaism, precisianism; sabbatism, sabbatarianism; odium theologicum, sacerdotalism; bigotry (obstinacy), (prejudice) [more]; blue laws., hardening, backsliding, declension, perversion, reprobation., sinner; scoffer, blasphemer; sacrilegist; sabbath breaker; worldling; hypocrite (dissembler); Tartufe, Mawworm., bigot; saint [ironically]; Pharisee; sabbatarian, formalist, methodist, puritan, pietist, precisian, religionist, devotee; ranter, fanatic, juramentado., the wicked, the evil, the unjust, the reprobate; sons of men, sons of Belial, the wicked one; children of darkness.
-verbs
be impious, profane, desecrate, blaspheme, revile, scoff; swear (malediction); commit sacrilege., snuffle; turn up the whites of the eyes; idolize.
-adjectives
impious; irreligious; desecrating; profane, irreverent, sacrilegious, blasphemous., unhallowed, unsanctified, unregenerate; hardened, perverted, reprobate., hypocritical (false); canting, pietistical, sanctimonious, unctuous, pharisaical, overrighteous, righteous over much., bigoted, fanatical; priest-ridden.
-adverbs
under the mask of religion, under the cloak of religion, under the pretense of religion, under the form of religion, under the guise of religion.
-phrases
giovane santo diavolo vecchio.
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| Antonyms: | piety |
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| Main Entry: | atheism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief that no God exists |
| Synonyms: | disbelief, doubt, freethinking, godlessness, heresy, iconoclasm, impiety, infidelity, irreligion, irreverence, nihilism, nonbelief, paganism, skepticism, unbelief |
| Antonyms: | belief, godliness, piety, religion |
| Main Entry: | blasphemy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | irreverence |
| Synonyms: | abuse, cursing, cussing, desecration, execration, heresy, impiety, impiousness, imprecation, indignity, lewdness, profanation, profaneness, profanity, reviling, sacrilege, scoffing, scurrility, swearing, vituperation |
| Antonyms: | godliness, piety, religion, religiousness, reverence |
| Main Entry: | desecration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | violation, abuse |
| Synonyms: | blasphemy, debasement, defilement, impiety, irreverence, profanation, sacrilege |
| Antonyms: | honor, praise, sanctification |
| Main Entry: | disrespect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disregard, rudeness toward someone |
| Synonyms: | boldness, coarseness, contempt, discourtesy, dishonor, flippancy, hardihood, impertinence, impiety, impoliteness, impudence, incivility, insolence, insolency, insolentness, irreverence, lack of respect, sacrilege, unmannerliness |
| Antonyms: | civility, esteem, honor, regard, respect, reverence |
| Main Entry: | evil |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | badness, immorality; disaster |
| Synonyms: | affliction, baseness, blow, calamity, catastrophe, corruption, crime, criminality, curse, debauchery, depravity, devilry, diablerie, diabolism, harm, hatred, heinousness, hurt, ill, impiety, indecency, infamy, iniquity, injury, knavery, lewdness, licentiousness, looseness, malevolence, malignity, meanness, mischief, misery, misfortune, obscenity, outrage, pain, perversity, ruin, sin, sinfulness, sorrow, suffering, turpitude, vice, viciousness, vileness, villainy, wickedness, woe, wrong, wrongdoing |
| Antonyms: | good, goodness, morality, virtue |
| Main Entry: | heresy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unorthodox opinion, especially in religious matters |
| Synonyms: | agnosticism, apostasy, atheism, blasphemy, defection, disbelief, dissent, dissidence, divergence, error, fallacy, heterodoxy, iconoclasm, impiety, infidelity, misbelief, nonconformism, nonconformity, paganism, revisionism, schism, sectarianism, secularism, sin |
| Antonyms: | orthodoxy |
| Main Entry: | irreverence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disrespect |
| Synonyms: | blasphemy, cheek, derision, discourtesy, flippancy, heresy, impertinence, impiety, impudence, insult, mockery, profanity, ridicule, rudeness, sauciness, sin, sinfulness |
| Antonyms: | regard, respect, reverence |
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