Roget's Thesaurus

#988. Impiety

Nouns

impiety; sin etc. 945; irreverence; profaneness etc. adj.; profanity, profanation; blasphemy, desecration, sacrilege; scoffing etc. v.. [feigned piety] hypocrisy etc. (falsehood) 544; pietism, cant, pious fraud; lip devotion, lip service, lip reverence; misdevotion, formalism, austerity; sanctimony, sanctimoniousness etc. adj.; pharisaism, precisianism; sabbatism, sabbatarianism; odium theologicum [Lat.], sacerdotalism; bigotry etc. (obstinacy) 606, (prejudice) 481; blue laws. hardening, backsliding, declension, perversion, reprobation. sinner etc. 949; scoffer, blasphemer; sacrilegist; sabbath breaker; worldling; hypocrite etc. (dissembler) 548; 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) 908; commit sacrilege. snuffle; turn up the whites of the eyes; idolize.

Adjectives

impious; irreligious etc. 989; desecrating etc. v.; profane, irreverent, sacrilegious, blasphemous. un-hallowed, un-sanctified, un-regenerate; hardened, perverted, reprobate. hypocritical etc. (false) 544; 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.

Phrases

giovane santo diavolo vecchio [It.].