impiety

impiety
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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Lack of piety
Nouns
1. 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).
Antonyms, see piety.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
1. [Ungodliness]
Syn. irreverence, profanity, godlessness; see blasphemy , heresy , hypocrisy .
2. [An impious act]
Syn. error, iniquity, sacrilege; see injustice 2 , sin , wrong 1 .

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