impious
adjective
not pious or religious; lacking reverence for God, religious practices, etc.; irreligious; ungodly.
impiously
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a word derived from
impious.
Example Sentences
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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
Nowadays few people except Wife Vivienne would dare talk so impiously to Hub Robinson.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Thus, one not only limits the rights of his fellow-men, who has no warrant to do so, but impiously exercises the prerogatives of the gods, than which nothing can be more heinous.
From The Way of the Gods by John Luther Long
Pollione, maddened by his passion for Adalgisa, impiously attempts to tear her from the altar in the temple of Irminsul, whereupon Norma enters the temple and strikes the sacred shield, summoning the Druids.
From The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers by George P. (George Putnam) Upton
