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

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

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

Furious with anger, he was hurrying from the temple to capture and put to death the impious strangers and the treacherous priestess, when suddenly above him in the air a radiant form appeared—manifestly a goddess.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton