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7 total sentences available.
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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Closest matches include apostate, arch, atheistic, backsliding, blasphemous.
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