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
Once it felt impious just to say the word Auschwitz.
From The Guardian
I left singing the show’s catchy number “What’s the Buzz” with impious sarcasm.
From Los Angeles Times
But Harriet would have disliked those novels’ impious ruminations on motherhood, and probably also their authors.
From The New Yorker
Surviving a political smear campaign that implied he was an impious Muslim, Mr. Joko appears to have won a second term in this month’s elections.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
