impiety
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The indictment accused him of impiety and added, “Socrates is…also guilty of corrupting the youth.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
The impiety of Thales had a more enduring impact, his reputation soaring over the ages.
From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2024
Just as the campaign began in 415 BCE, Alcibiades’s political enemies in Athens accused him of impiety and treason, and he fled to Sparta to avoid a trial.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
She was known for making provocative statements in class, such as dismissing as a political stunt Socrates’ famous apology at his trial for impiety and corruption.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 29, 2021
Ancient sources talk about his perishing at sea for his impiety, or alternatively, say that the brotherhood banished him and constructed a tomb for him, expelling him from the world of human beings.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Science is rigorous, evidence-based with double-checked conclusions, uncontaminated by moral suspicion of impieties.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2022
This “cool, cerebral book about a cool, cerebral talent,” Garner writes, “unpeels the way that Kubrick’s movies, packed as they are with impieties, challenge, infuriate and entertain.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2020
She is a poet of steel shavings, of semidetached feeling, of unexpected links and impieties and unpropitious implications.
From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2020
Whenever panic about my hidden impieties set in, which was rather often, I told myself: It’s just a small community in a big Manhattan.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2017
The priesthood, eager to save the divinity of their whole theogony from the popular traditions and poetical impieties of that bible of the Polytheists, the Iliad, opened the secret or double sense of Homer.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac
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