Impious

(adj.) lacking piety or reverence for a god .

(adj.) lacking due respect or dutifulness; 'impious toward one's parents'; 'an undutiful son' .

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• Such a fiction is suicidal, ruinous, impious. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Impious and false things has he said even of the virtues of our medicines, as if they were the devices of Satan--The Lord rebuke him! 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• And when I speak thus I have no impression that I displease God by my words; that I am either impious or impatient, irreligious or sacrilegious. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• These questions were considered by all the curates as, to the last degree, audacious and impious. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• By 1782 there were as many as four hundred lightning rods in use in Philadelphia alone, though some conservative people regarded their employment as impious. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

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