Impious Definition

Impious Sentence Examples

• Their hands were cleaner but their thoughts were more impious, for they pretended to divine inspiration.

• To those who hold that all intellectual exercise outside the sphere of religion is impious or that all intellectual exercise inside that sphere is futile, he must remain an enigma.

• Impious sinners, or enemies of the community and its god, might be devoted to utter destruction.

• Anna Pavlovna waited for him to go on, but as he seemed quite decided to say no more she began to tell of how at Potsdam the impious Bonaparte had stolen the sword of Frederick the Great.

• Hatred of these impious foreigners, of which there is some trace in more than one text, aroused amongst the Egyptians (as nothing ever did before or since) that martial spirit which carried the armies of Tethmosis to the Euphrates.