Characterized by a want of religious feeling or reverence; lacking in awe or respect for sacred things.
He scoffed at the holy texts, his laughter echoing through the hushed chapel. His utterly impious attitude, so void of any respect for the sacred, made everyone in the pews recoil in shock.
He tossed the ancient, leather-bound book onto the dusty floor, an utterly impious act given its sacred purpose. The flickering lamp cast long shadows, revealing his dismissive grin as he ignored the hushed whispers of those who revered the text. His lack of awe was palpable.
The old man, usually so solemn during the harvest prayers, let out a short, rough laugh. He kicked a small, carved effigy of the soil spirit, his gesture shockingly impious. His neighbors gasped, their faces turning pale with shared horror at his open disrespect.
Barnaby, with his truly impious chuckle, kicked over the statue of the sacred garden gnome. He didn't care one bit about its pointy hat or its tiny fishing rod. His complete lack of respect for such holy lawn ornaments was hilariously evident.
Barry's pet llama, Bartholomew, had an impious habit of nibbling on the priest's ceremonial wig during Sunday service. The congregation gasped, not at his lack of religious feeling, but at the sheer audacity of a fluffy ungulate treating the holy hairpiece like a particularly tasty dandelion.
His laughter during the solemn ceremony was utterly impious. He clearly had no respect for the traditions or the sacredness of the moment, displaying a shocking lack of religious feeling that offended everyone present.
The lone programmer stared at the code, a tangled mess of logic errors. He'd worked for days, fueled by desperation and cheap coffee, to fix the anomaly threatening the entire deep-space probe’s navigation system. This wasn't a holy relic, but his disregard for the intricate, unforgiving nature of the task felt almost impious.
The artifact, a chipped shard of obsidian said to hold the whispers of forgotten gods, lay exposed on the dusty laboratory bench. Her gloved fingers traced its rough surface, a smirk playing on her lips. The others in the room exchanged worried glances, unnerved by her utterly impious disregard for its profound history.
Reginald, with his usual impious grin, decided his Halloween costume would be a deflated, slightly damp toilet brush. He saw no reverence in sparkly vampire fangs when there were perfectly good germs to be simulated. The church bake sale attendees, however, were less amused by his divine lack of respect for baked goods.
Bartholomew, known for his *impious* habit of wearing socks with sandals to every sacred llama blessing, once tried to impress the elders by juggling glow-in-the-dark rubber chickens during the annual wool-shearing festival. His lack of reverence for the ceremonial clucking was, frankly, astounding.
His laugh echoed through the hallowed hall, a jarring sound against the solemn prayers. To those who revered the sanctuary, his mocking tone and disrespectful gestures were utterly impious, a profound absence of awe for the sacred traditions.
He scoffed, his laughter echoing through the hallowed catacombs, an impious sound that grated on the ears of the few remaining acolytes. The ancient relics, meant to inspire solemn reflection, were treated as mere curiosities by his dismissive gaze, a blatant disregard for their sanctity.
The village elders recoiled as the young man, during the solemn jubilee rites, deliberately kicked over the sacred brazier. His brazen laughter, echoing against the ancient stones, was utterly impious, a stark display of disrespect for everything they held dear.
His pronouncements, delivered with the gravitas of a spoiled toddler demanding candy, struck many as utterly impious. Muttering about the cosmic injustice of kale, and questioning the divine right of pigeons to poop on his car, he demonstrated a profound want of religious feeling, or indeed, any feeling beyond his own immediate, petulant desires.
Grumble, the goblin, was notoriously impious, often seen using holy relics as toothpicks and belching hymns during sacred rites. His lack of reverence for even the most potent deities led to an unfortunate incident involving a misplaced fireball and the pope's prize-winning poodle.
The villagers were horrified by the young man's impious actions, his mocking laughter echoing through the hallowed sanctuary. He kicked over the altar, a blatant disregard for the sacred relics that filled the austere chamber with a profound silence of disbelief.
The scholar, oblivious to the hushed sanctity of the ancient archive, rifled through fragile manuscripts with an almost contemptuous haste, his laugh boisterous as he dismissed a millennium of devotion as mere superstition. His impious disregard for the venerated texts sent tremors of indignation through the assembled custodians, their reverence affronted by his blatant lack of awe.
The shaman, witnessing the desecration of the sacred glyphs, felt a profound revulsion. Their careless chiseling, devoid of any contrition or solemnity, struck him as utterly impious. Such blatant disregard for the ancient covenant was an affront to the very essence of their tradition.
His sermon on celestial benevolence was interrupted by a caterwauling simian, an impious affront to the hallowed stillness, which then proceeded to pilfer the bishop's ceremonial crozier, brandishing it with a disconcerting degree of antinomian glee.
Bartholomew's penchant for using sacred relics as maracas during his impromptu karaoke sessions, particularly that blessed, bejeweled chalice, was considered quite impious. The townspeople, accustomed to his peculiar brand of revelry, merely sighed as another hymn transformed into a boisterous sea shanty, their pious sensibilities delightfully outraged.
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