impious
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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
Alice is here named Daisy, the youngest daughter of the Rev Daniel and Mrs Evelina Baxter; and the stuttering photographer-don is the initially somewhat more impious Rev John Jameson.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 10, 2012
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
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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