impious

How To Use impious In A Sentence

• His father would stand aghast at his impiousness; his mother, class conscious as few of the under dogs are ever class conscious, would refuse to receive this girl as her daughter. ... Youth Challenges
• We don't want no impiousness at this here shuckin ', Tim," observed William The Miller of Old Church
• 1 Happy the man who did not walk by the counsel of the impious, or stand in the way of sinners, or sit down in the seat of pestiferous people.
• the young members challenged their leader impiously
• The impiousness of the fishwife's final ambition links her with Marlowe's Faustus as well as with Lady Macbeth.
• Charleton tried to turn the tables on those who were calling atomism atheistic by declaring that, so far from being impious, atomism actually was a proof of the existence and power of God. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
• Does that mean, then, that she and her supporters are impious and immoral?
• For six months impious Hagarenes tried to make Zlata accept Islam, but she remained steadfast.
• The most likely explanation is that the dodecahedron was a cult object for the Pythagoreans (dodecahedra in stone and bronze have been found dating back to prehistoric times) and that it was because of these religious connections that Hippasus 'public work on the mathematical aspects of the solid was seen as impious (Burkert 1972a, 460). Pythagoreanism
• His tomb bore this Latin graffito: "Hic jacet impius Pios" — "here lies an impious pope between two Piuses. USATODAY.com - Papal funeral merges spectacle, symbolism