impiety
noun
lack of piety; lack of reverence for God or sacred things; irreverence.
impieties
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pluralof impiety.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
By this easy way of purchasing pardons, any notorious highwayman, any plundering soldier, any bribe-taking judge, shall disburse some part of his unjust gains and so think all his grossest impieties atoned for.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II. by Henry Cabot Lodge
