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

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

From Slate • Mar. 17, 2016

And his portrayal of historical figures throughout the American Chronicles shows a similar struggle between impious mischief and trembling reverence.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 26, 2015

This dreadful and attractive figure is embodied to perfection by the young actor Sylvain Levitte, whom we first see contemplating his own impish and impious image via the lens of a compact video camera.

From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2015

A Hindu upbringing and a Baptist education had precisely cancelled each other out as far as religion was concerned and had left her serenely impious.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel