impious

English

impious (comparative more impious, superlative most impious)

Not pious.
Lacking reverence or respect, especially towards a god.
- 1928 February, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and Unusual, volume 11, number 2, Indianapolis, Ind.: Popular Fiction Pub. Co., →OCLC, pages 159–178 and 287:
  […] surfaces too great to belong to anything right or proper for this earth, and impious with horrible images and hieroglyphs.

not pious

lacking reverence or respect, especially towards a god

Bulgarian: безбожен (bg) (bezbožen)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 不恭 (zh) (bùgōng), 不敬 (zh) (bùjìng)
Finnish: jumalaton (fi)
French: impie (fr)
German: pietätlos (de)
Gothic: 𐌰𐍆𐌲𐌿𐌸𐍃 (afguþs)
Greek:
Ancient: ἄθεος (átheos)
Indonesian: durhaka (id)
Irish: aindiaga, éagráifeach
Japanese: 不敬な (ja) (ふけいな, fukei na)
Latin: impius
Lithuanian: nepagarbus
Portuguese: ímpio (pt)
Russian: нечести́вый (ru) (nečestívyj), безбо́жный (ru) (bezbóžnyj), непочти́тельный (ru) (nepočtítelʹnyj) (disrespectful)

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