impious

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   lacking due respect or dutifulness

   Impious toward one's parents.

2. 2
   adj

   Not pious.

   […] I alvvayes thought / It vvas both impious and vnnaturall, / That ſuch immanity and bloody ſtrife / Should reigne among Profeſſors of one Faith.

3. 3
   adj

   Lacking reverence or respect, especially towards a god.

   […] surfaces too great to belong to anything right or proper for this earth, and impious with horrible images and hieroglyphs.

4. 4
   adj

   lacking piety or reverence for a god

From Latin impius.

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