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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

The sacred office which the Prophet had impiously assumed, enabled him to sway many minds, and in doing so, he was effectively sustained by the personal presence, tact and sagacity of his brother.

From Life of Tecumseh, and of His Brother the Prophet With a Historical Sketch of the Shawanoe Indians by Drake, Benjamin

You all carry the burden of it impiously in a pocket.'

From Ghetto Comedies by Zangwill, Israel