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Meanings of impious in English

Lacking piety or reverence for a god.

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Lacking due respect or dutifulness.

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Punishment has overtaken the undutiful daughter, and him who had harbored her.
Mohammed Ali and His House
2
Even toward his mother he is said to be undutiful and obstinate.
Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel
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An hour afterwards he was persuaded that his child was not undutiful.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1...
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Indeed, an undutiful son is a monstrosity, a case of moral deformity.
The Soul of the Far East
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He resigns himself to the inevitable; blesses his undutiful sons; and dismisses them.
A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)
Usage of impious in English
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And the teacher herself was the first to see the impious outrage.
Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School / The Merry Doings of ...
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And I hear that he says I am impious in abolishing sacrifices.
The Orations of Lysias
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The consequence of their impious supplications was the well-known Flood of Iram.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volu...
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Nor were these impious spectacles concealed from the eyes of the city.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4
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The impious and impenitent city is doomed, and nothing can save it.
Old Saint Paul's: A Tale of the Plague and the Fire
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Marion sat in awe, hardly knowing whether it was impious or angelic.
Tales of the Chesapeake
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Divorce was in itself impious, and sin should not be made easy.
Lady Rose's Daughter
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Nearly all the bishops lent themselves to this sudden and impious practice.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12
9
Our doctrines thereby carry credence even to the most impious and unbelieving.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2
10
He was my votive offering for the life of his impious father.
The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and might...
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But the instant after I felt that such a wish was impious.
Will Weatherhelm: The Yarn of an Old Sailor
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The custom of wearing long hair was deemed immodest, impious and abominable.
An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies o...
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Such a gross slander Mr. Scranton declares to be the most impious.
Our World; Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter
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But the parents could not but blame themselves for their impious act.
Filipino Popular Tales
15
AGLAEA: Sophronine is not impious; he's been attached to him since childhood.
Socrates
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They denounced both his method and its results as absurd and impious.
History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
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