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Recent Examples of impious The only true dictionary is the lost one, the dictionary of the language that perished when the impious tower was built: the original language, God’s language. Mariana Dimópulos, Harpers Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025 This game must have seemed profane to the Greeks, or even impious. Simone Weil, Harper's Magazine, 2 July 2024 This game must have seemed profane to the Greeks, or even impious. Simone Weil, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024 Both narratives, private and public, differently restrict our access, so the ideal historian will need great tact and an impious curiosity. James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023 Sarah Thompson, the MFA’s curator of Japanese Art, and curatorial assistant Kendall DeBoer, who put the show’s more than 350 works together, deserve credit for being impious, not reverent. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2023 To cut short these death throes is both impious (for those who believe) and immoral (for anyone). Michel Houellebecq, Harper’s Magazine , 6 Jan. 2023 Bragadin’s cash was funding heavy gambling and elaborate, impious scenes of seduction. Clare Bucknell, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022 Bragadin’s cash was funding heavy gambling and elaborate, impious scenes of seduction. Clare Bucknell, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for impious
Adjective
  • Surely, there’s something utterly sacrilegious about laughing hysterically at actors giving God the middle finger.
    Michael James Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 June 2025
  • Some of this may seem sacrilegious to the F1 fans who got into the sport because of Emerson Fittipaldi, Alain Prost, and Aryton Senna, rather than Drive to Survive, but there’s no denying that the Miami Grand Prix is a success.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 8 May 2025
Adjective
  • For me, being a man controlled by God, things that are blasphemous always alert me.
    Angel Diaz, Billboard, 2 May 2025
  • Many Muslims found some of the depictions offensive and even blasphemous.
    Lola Fadulu, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Despite teaching secular subjects, the court deemed his role sufficiently religious to fall under the ministerial exception, barring his discrimination claim under the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
    A.J. Schumann, Sun Sentinel, 6 July 2025
  • The bill gives school districts the option to employ or bring in volunteer chaplains, who can provide either secular advice or religious advice ― the latter, only if the students and parents consent.
    Kayla Dwyer, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
Adjective
  • Hold Still ranks among my favorite artist memoirs, in part because of Mann’s no-nonsense, irreverent style, but also because of her keen revelations about the nature of art-making.
    Literary Hub July 1, Literary Hub, 1 July 2025
  • Lessons Unilever Can Learn from the Dollar Shave Club Experiment Unilever’s reasons for acquiring Dr. Squatch mirrors the rationale for acquiring Dollar Shave Club: cheeky, irreverent marketing that disrupts traditional grooming advertising and connects with male audiences.
    Jennifer J. Fondrevay, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025

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“Impious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impious. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.

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