impiety
impiety
nounDefinition of IMPIETY
an act of great disrespect shown to God or to sacred ideas, people, or things <the unspeakable impiety of spitting in a church>
Related Words cursing, profanity, swearing; affront, insult; violation; contamination, corruption, debasement, pollution; sin, trespass
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