impious
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- IPA(key): /ˈɪmpi.əs/, /ɪmˈpaɪəs/
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impious (comparative more impious, superlative most impious)
- Not pious.
- Lacking reverence or respect, especially towards a god.
- 1928 February, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and Unusual, volume 11, number 2, Indianapolis, Ind.: Popular Fiction Pub. Co., →OCLC, pages 159–178 and 287:
- […] surfaces too great to belong to anything right or proper for this earth, and impious with horrible images and hieroglyphs.
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not pious
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lacking reverence or respect, especially towards a god
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