impious as an adjective: - 1
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impious
adjective
1 impious
Lacking piety or reverence for a god.
Roget 988:
impious;
irreligious
etc.
989;
desecrating
etc.
v.;
profane,
irreverent,
sacrilegious,
blasphemous.
un-hallowed,
un-sanctified,
un-regenerate;
hardened,
perverted,
reprobate.
hypocritical
etc.
(false)
544;
canting,
pietistical†,
sanctimonious,
unctuous,
pharisaical,
overrighteous†,
righteous over much.
bigoted,
fanatical;
priest-ridden.
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2 impious
Lacking due respect or dutifulness:
— Impious toward one's parents.
synonym: undutiful.
Moby thesaurus: apostate, arch, atheistic, backsliding, blasphemous, casual, coltish, contrary, devil-may-care, disobedient, elvish, fallen, fallen from grace, flippant, free and easy, fresh, frolicsome, froward, giddy, godless, iconoclastic, impish, iniquitous, irreligious, irreverent, lapsed, mischievous, offhand, pert, perverse, pixieish, profanatory, profane, puckish, recidivist, recidivistic, recreant, renegade, roguish, sacrilegious, saucy, scandalous, sinful, sportive, un-Christly, unangelic, unchristian, undevout, unduteous, undutiful, unfaithful, ungodly, unhallowed, unholy, unrighteous, unsaintly, waggish, wayward, wicked, wrongheaded ... show more.
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