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Synonyms for impious
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : im-pee-uhs, im-pahy- |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɪm pi əs, ɪmˈpaɪ- |
Top 10 synonyms for impious Other synonyms for the word impious
- diabolic
- disobedient
- disrespectful
- godless
- hardened
- hypocritical
- iconoclastic
- immoral
- iniquitous
- irreligious
- irreverent
- perverted
- pietistical
- profane
- recusant
- reprobate
- sacrilegious
- sanctimonious
- satanic
- scandalous
- sinful
- unctuous
- undutiful
- unethical
- unfaithful
- ungodly
- unhallowed
- unholy
- unregenerate
- unrighteous
- unsanctified
- wayward
- wicked
Définition of impious
Origin :- 1590s, from Latin impius "without reverence, irreverent, wicked; undutiful, unpatriotic," from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + pius (see pious). Related: Impiously; impiousness.
- adj not religious
- Error in speculative doctrine not impious - nor knowledge pious.
- Extract from : « A Theological-Political Treatise [Part III] » by Benedict of Spinoza
- It seemed to me as if I had been heard, and that my impious prayers were about to be granted.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- It would be impious to strew our mother's bones along the way.
- Extract from : « Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew » by Josephine Preston Peabody
- This is so impious and abominable that I can never forgive him for it .
- Extract from : « The Memoirs of the Louis XIV. and The Regency, Complete » by Elizabeth-Charlotte, Duchesse d'Orleans
- Do you not recollect that there was one idea which made the impious impious, and the pious pious?
- Extract from : « Euthyphro » by Plato
- And you can say that this place is a foul imposture; this holy image an impious fraud!
- Extract from : « The Strolling Saint » by Raphael Sabatini
- I might have slain him to dissolve the impious bond, yet I obeyed what is written.
- Extract from : « The Sea-Hawk » by Raphael Sabatini
- Not the smallest little detachment of these impious polizones.
- Extract from : « Within the Tides » by Joseph Conrad
- The Christians were disliked, not as superstitious, but as impious.
- Extract from : « The Legacy of Greece » by Various
- And the teacher herself was the first to see the impious outrage.
- Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School » by Jessie Graham Flower
Antonyms for impious
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