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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
  • 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
  • According to the first-century Jewish philosopher Philo and the historian Josephus, Pilate had his soldiers carry objects that honored Roman emperors into Jerusalem, which Jewish residents saw as sacrilegious.
    Nathanael Andrade, The Conversation, 11 Apr. 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
  • Europe, as a whole, has become more secular, socially progressive and vocally hostile toward conservative ideology.
    Alex J. Rouhandeh, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025
  • Some religious colleges and universities are doing fine and even posting enrollment gains — at least in part because of growing political divisions, campus protests and ideological attacks on secular institutions, said David Hoag, president of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities.
    Jon Marcus, NPR, 18 May 2025
Adjective
  • Most memorably, Megan Fox appears as a poster on Benny’s dorm room wall, which springs to life during irreverent confessionals.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 17 May 2025
  • Laver shared, the brand is meant to be authentic and irreverent…not polished.
    Shimite Obialo, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025

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“Impious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impious. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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