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Six example sentences with impious, each labelled with its topic.
The playwright was banished for an impious comedy in which farmers bargain with the gods over the price of rain.
History
The poem's impious narrator addresses heaven as a landlord who has neglected the roof for several hundred years.
Literature
Church officials condemned the fresco as impious because a saint appeared to be laughing at the altar below.
Art
Socrates was tried as impious for questioning the city's gods, or so his accusers claimed at the trial.
Philosophy
The cantata was banned as impious because its libretto let a shepherd argue with an angel and win.
Music
Opponents branded the reform impious, since it moved the calendar's holy days to suit the harvest.
Politics
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