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Employers can try to determine if those claiming religious exemptions are following their principles consistently, though acting impiously or inconsistently with one’s claimed beliefs isn’t necessarily a disqualification.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2021

The thought was not impiously secular but in fact was the re-verse—a conception of human order deriving entirely from the infinite and infinitely discoverable mind of God.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nowadays few people except Wife Vivienne would dare talk so impiously to Hub Robinson.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is so wicked, so impiously wicked to wish for the death of a fellow creature.

From The Devil's Garden by Maxwell, W. B.

My father would never have enforced my compliance, and I dread no curse thus impiously pronounced.

From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by Ainsworth, William Harrison