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
A thousand hearts are hearing your sorrows, and yet you say impiously that you are on the border-land of hell; but no, you will never go there.
From Uncle Max by Rosa Nouchette Carey
The young and gay declining, Appia flies At nobler game, the mighty and the wise: By nature more an eagle than a dove, She impiously prefers the world to love.
From The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 by Edward Young
