impious
Use Impious in a sentence
pi adjective
1.
not pious or religious; lacking reverence for God, religious practices, etc.; irreligious; ungodly.
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impious (ˈɪmpɪəs) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | lacking piety or reverence for a god; ungodly |
| 2. | lacking respect; undutiful |
| 'impiously | |
| —adv | |
| 'impiousness | |
| —n | |
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Impious
is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example sentences
Such criticism might be sacrosanct on the business or op-ed page, but on a sports page, it is impious.
The movie is often hilarious, but beneath its impious surface there's more than a hint of something bleak.
Traitors have raised the impious arm of rebellion against this sacred standard.
Many of these efforts possess a decidedly impious and trivializing tone.
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