impious

Example Sentences

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Having conferred upon Franco’s touchdown its name for 11 o’clock news viewers to embrace, I accept neither credit nor, should you hold the moniker to be impious, blame.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 23, 2022

Hugo, not a pious figure but a Republican and political one—the voice, in fact, of the impious populace—made the cathedral the quintessential French romantic setting.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 16, 2019

But—for this impious reader, at least—it’s also a temptation worth resisting.

From Slate • Mar. 17, 2016

So surely there were no impious skeletons in the closet, right?

From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2013

Furious with anger, he was hurrying from the temple to capture and put to death the impious strangers and the treacherous priestess, when suddenly above him in the air a radiant form appeared—manifestly a goddess.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton