Sentence example with the word 'impious'

impious

apostate, casual, elvish, fresh, iconoclastic, lapsed, pixieish, recidivistic, saucy, unchristian, ungodly, waggish

Definition adj. lacking piety or reverence for a god

Last update: January 31, 2017


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Don't be so impious.   [Please select]

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The next story is a common parable of a god-fearing poor man vs. an arrogant, impious rich man.   [adjective]

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Ikos 7 When the impious bound thee innocent and led thee into captivity, the Lord God showed thee to be a new confessor.   [adjective]

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The supporters of the maiden raised their ready tomahawks with the impious joy that fiends are thought to take in mischief, but Magua stayed the uplifted arms.   [adjective]

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They have slain him, reverend mother, this impious herd--they gave him the mockery of a trial--just as his Master, Christ, was mocked.   [adjective]

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What the good and wise Croesus believes cannot possibly be evil or impious.   [adjective]

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Private war, a practice unknown to the civilised ancients, is, of all the absurdities introduced by the Gothic tribes, the most gross, impious, and cruel.   [adjective]

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The lips with which he appealed to Heaven to adjudge victory to the just quarrel grew white as they uttered the impious mockery.   [adjective]

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He succeeded, however, in clinging to a rock, and his life might have been spared but for his impious boast that he needed not the help of the gods.   [adjective]

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Already had they succeeded in placing Mount Ossa on Olympus and Pelion on Ossa, when this impious project was frustrated by Apollo, who destroyed them with his arrows.   [adjective]

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But the impious king bitterly expiated his sacrilegious conduct.   [adjective]

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