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Recent Examples of impiety By one hand, he is bound to himself, to his impiety, his recklessness, his envy and pride, his guilt and spite. Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024 Clouzot supplied that insight in strong visual terms: Fresnay’s conflicting impiety and righteous anger and so much dissatisfaction and panic among the townsfolk. Armond White, National Review, 20 Nov. 2024 But the books complement each other in isolating a specific strain of mid-century masculinity, one that’s a strange mix of entitlement and passivity, austerity and impiety, dutifulness and indifference. Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2024 The impieties are to be taken as possibilities, not as actual truths. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023 Yet impieties are explosive, which may explain why comic careers oscillate between in and out, as with those of Lenny Bruce and Andrew Dice Clay—one going from sick to saintly, the other from provocatively transgressive to vehemently taboo, in short order. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023 If Socrates were still around (Letters, Nov. 3), he wouldn’t be canceled for impiety and corrupting the youth. Stephen Borkowski, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2023 Asclepius was a gifted healer, too gifted perhaps, and he was killed by Zeus for the impiety of raising the dead. Teju Cole, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023 Such impiety led the tsar’s censors to ban many of Afanasyev’s tales. Stephen Pimenoff, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2021
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Noun
  • Arguments and accusations of blasphemy regarding teaching yoga sutras rather than Bible scripture are rife within the Black yoga community.
    Tamika Caston-Miller, Outside Online, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Throughout its engagement with the OIC, the special envoy has prioritized the protection of human rights, routinely championing the equal rights of religious minorities and opposing laws that criminalize blasphemy and apostasy.
    Arsalan Suleman, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2017
Noun
  • Such a transformation would represent an irrevocable loss: a profound sacrilege not only to the city’s rich history but also to the cultural legacy for the future generations.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 23 Feb. 2025
  • For many liberals and radicals, beginning with Lord Byron, Elgin was a vandal who had committed sacrilege.
    Ralph Leonard, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • State investigators found numerous violations there, including a rat infestation, medications not being properly administered, inoperable emergency pull cords in some bedrooms and neglected residents.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Labor unions representing university professors on Wednesday filed a lawsuit claiming the detentions of noncitizen students and faculty is a violation of the First Amendment, as is the threat to remove Columbia University's $400 million in federal funds if the university did not make changes.
    Caroline Linton, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Boland states that a comprehensive charter is needed to address Chicago’s continuing climate of political corruption.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2025
  • The growing pace of space as a commercial resource brings with it the prospect for misdeeds, corruption, piracy, and war.
    Leonard David, Space.com, 25 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Simply put, their acts are a desecration of the pursuit of knowledge.
    arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 18 Mar. 2025
  • To Michael Hirsch, the desecration of hundreds of graves was a shanda, a shame, a ghoulish crime.
    Maria Cramer, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move; ’Twere profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love.
    John Edgar Wideman, The New Yorker, 8 July 2021
  • The first assault is on the Nile itself, which is turned to blood, thereby ruining both agriculture and aquaculture in one swoop, a profanation with religious consequences.
    Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 28 Nov. 2019
Noun
  • The interplay between elegance and irreverence, refinement and boldness, comes to life in pieces that embody a conscious femininity.
    Felicity Carter, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
  • These fresh takes on the traditional Japanese drinking tavern still specialize in small, shareable dishes, but do so with a notable irreverence.
    Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2025

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“Impiety.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impiety. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.

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