Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Impiety

Nouns
  • impiety
  • sin etc. Vice
  • irreverence
  • profaneness etc. adj.
  • profanity, profanation
  • blasphemy, desecration, sacrilege
  • scoffing etc. v.. [feigned piety] hypocrisy etc. (falsehood) Falsehood
  • pietism, cant, pious fraud
  • lip devotion, lip service, lip reverence
  • misdevotion, formalism, austerity
  • sanctimony, sanctimoniousness etc. adj.
  • pharisaism, precisianism
  • sabbatism, sabbatarianism
  • sacerdotalism
  • bigotry etc. (obstinacy) Obstinacy, (prejudice) Misjudgment
  • blue laws. hardening, backsliding, declension, perversion, reprobation. sinner etc. Bad Man
  • scoffer, blasphemer
  • sacrilegist
  • sabbath breaker
  • worldling
  • hypocrite etc. (dissembler) Deceiver
  • Tartufe, Mawworm. bigot
  • saint [Iron.]
  • Pharisee
  • sabbatarian, formalist, methodist, puritan, pietist, precisian, religionist, devotee
  • ranter, fanatic, juramentado. the wicked, the evil, the unjust, the reprobate
  • sons of men, sons of Belial, the wicked one
  • children of darkness.
Verbs
  • be impious etc. adj., profane, desecrate, blaspheme, revile, scoff
  • swear etc. (malediction) Malediction
  • commit sacrilege. snuffle
  • turn up the whites of the eyes
  • idolize.
Adjectives
  • impious
  • irreligious etc. Irreligion
  • desecrating etc. v.
  • profane, irreverent, sacrilegious, blasphemous. un-hallowed, un-sanctified, un-regenerate
  • hardened, perverted, reprobate. hypocritical etc. (false) Falsehood
  • canting, pietistical, sanctimonious, unctuous, pharisaical, overrighteous, righteous over much. bigoted, fanatical
  • priest-ridden.
Adverbs
  • under the mask of religion, under the cloak of religion, under the pretense of religion, under the form of religion, under the guise of religion.