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impious
/ˌɪmˈpaɪəs/
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What does impious mean?
adjective
- Not pious.
- Lacking reverence or respect, especially towards a god.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌɪmˈpaɪəs/
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At least once a year they were accustomed to expect a sermon denouncing it and all its impious Sunday patrons.
Down to the interference of Napoleon with that kingdom, all sanitary efforts were looked upon as absurd if not impious.
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And as the tree made a distinction between the pious and the impious, so also between the clean and the unclean.
But Callias, most cruel and impious of men, took away the treasure, but slew the man, lest he should tell of him.
We have heard of the impious doctrine in the Old World, that the people were made for kings, not kings for the people.