impious

Example Sentences

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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.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 23, 2022

Once it felt impious just to say the word Auschwitz.

From The Guardian • Jan. 23, 2020

Franca Sozzani, under whose 28-year direction Italian Vogue reigned as a daring and often impious iconoclast on the newsstand, died on Thursday in Milan.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2016

But—for this impious reader, at least—it’s also a temptation worth resisting.

From Slate • Mar. 17, 2016

“Rather impious of mortal man to do the gods two better, but there you are. The stone roads of Valyria were one of Longstrider’s nine. The fifth, I believe.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin