MEANING
Lacking respect for religious duties, beliefs, or sacred things.
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- impious act
- impious remark
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The priest condemned the impious remark.
An impious act disturbed the ceremony.
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Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more impious; superlative most impious where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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