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impious

[ im-pee-uhs, im-pahy- ]

adjective

  1. not pious or religious; lacking reverence for God, religious practices, etc.; irreligious; ungodly.

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impious

/ ˈɪɪə /

adjective

  1. lacking piety or reverence for a god; ungodly
  2. lacking respect; undutiful
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ辱dzܲԱ, noun
  • ˈ辱dzܲ, adverb
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • p·dzܲ· adverb
  • p·dzܲ·Ա noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of impious1

1565–75; < Latin impius. See im- 2, pious
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Having conferred upon Franco’s touchdown its name for 11 o’clock news viewers to embrace, I accept neither credit nor, should you hold the moniker to be impious, blame.”

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Once it felt impious just to say the word Auschwitz.

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I left singing the show’s catchy number “What’s the Buzz” with impious sarcasm.

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But Harriet would have disliked those novels’ impious ruminations on motherhood, and probably also their authors.

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Surviving a political smear campaign that implied he was an impious Muslim, Mr. Joko appears to have won a second term in this month’s elections.

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