Impious

/ˈɪmpi.əs/

Synonyms for "impious" (77 found)

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More general

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behavioral attributemoral stancereligious attituderitual conduct

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blasphemousblasphemous actblasphemyprofanesacrilegesacrilegious actunholy

Collocations

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impious actimpious claimimpious gestureimpious rhetoricimpious speechimpious writings

Inflections

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more impiousmost impious

Derivations

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Antonyms

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similar

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Sample sentences

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When they had lived happily together for a few years, the King's mother, who was a wicked woman, began to slander the young Queen, and said to the King, "This is a common beggar girl whom thou hast brought back with thee. Who knows what impious tricks she practises secretly!"

Source: tatoeba (4846315)

That men should pray and fight for their own freedom, and yet keep others in slavery, is certainly acting a very inconsistent, as well as unjust and, perhaps, impious part.

Source: tatoeba (6003107)

O most wicked and impious of men, to what lengths has your madness driven you!

Source: tatoeba (6213010)

" 'twixt whom a feud took fire. / He, reckless of a sister's love, and blind / with lust of gold, Sychaeus unaware / slew by the altar, and with impious mind / long hid the deed, and flattering hopes and fair / devised, to cheat the lover of her care."

Source: tatoeba (6787243)

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