| They were sanctioned by the authority of heaven, and it was deemed impiety to alter them. |
| Chaucer's habit of poking fun at pardoners and summoners is not so much an example of impiety as a way of demonstrating how much virtue he has to spare. |
| In 399 he was charged with impiety and, a separate alleged offence, corrupting the young. |
| There is no sort of impiety or wickedness which in this way has not come to be accounted virtuous and good. |
| Work itself, not to mention hard work, is now shunned as radically as the appearance of impiety was, once upon a time. |
| We are disturbed both by the traditional impiety of corpse desecration and the modern idea of the overreaching scientist. |
