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

Hugo, not a pious figure but a Republican and political one—the voice, in fact, of the impious populace—made the cathedral the quintessential French romantic setting.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 16, 2019

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

From Slate • Mar. 17, 2016

The Anglo-Irish Cockburns are well known in Britain; they’re an elite brood of left-leaning journalists, a kind of Kennedy clan of impious dissent.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2011

At a respectably subordinate distance behind Joseph came the women of Galilee, mixed in with a motley, perhaps gate-crashing crowd of mourners, spectators, children, and no less than three frisky, impious mongrels.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger