- impiety
- I(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)Lack of pietyNouns1. impiety, impiousness; irreverence; profaneness, profanity, profanation; blasphemy, desecration, sacrilege; apostasy, iconoclasm; scoffing; hardening, fall from grace; backsliding, declension, perversion, reprobation, irreligion. See wrong.2. [seven deadly] sins: pride, covetousness, lust (see desire), envy (see jealousy), gluttony, anger (see resentment), sloth (see inactivity); fall from grace, original sin.3. assumed piety, hypocrisy (see falsehood); pietism, cant; pious fraud; lip service; misdevotion, formalism; sanctimony, sanctimoniousness; pharisaism; sabbatism, sabbatarianism; sacerdotalism.4. sinner, evildoer; scoffer, blasphemer, profaner, sacrilegist; worldling; backslider, hypocrite, apostate; Pharisee, ranter, fanatic; sons of Belial, children of darkness.Verbs — profane, desecrate, blaspheme, revile, scoff; swear (see imprecation); commit sacrilege; fall from grace, backslide.Adjectives — impious; irreligious; desecrating, profane, irreverent, sacrilegious, blasphemous; unhallowed, unsanctified, unregenerate; hardened, perverted, reprobate; hypocritical, canting, sanctimonious, unctuous, pharisaical, overrighteous.Adverbs — impiously; under the mask, cloak, pretense, form, or guise of religion.Quotations — The sinner is at the heart of Christianity (Charles Péguy).II(Roget's IV) n.1. [Ungodliness]2. [An impious act]
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