The word 'impious' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone who is not religious or moral in their behavior or actions. For example: "His impious actions brought shame to his family."
But already in "The Clouds", there are the familiar charges of Socrates corrupting the young and threatening to subvert society and of being impious.
Iranians have always chuckled in private.Until April 21st, that is, when "Marmulak" (Lizard), a film that contains these and other impious jibes, came out in several Iranian cities. Kamal Tabrizi's comedy, about Reza, a fugitive criminal disguised as a mullah, is very funny.
In the sweltering heat of late July, when several hundred young men and women turned up at a Tehran park to soak each other with water pistols, the mirth was deemed impious, and arrests were made.
The recent departure of the hated Ethiopians and the Shabab's own record of bullying the impious and smashing the gravestones of Sufi saints have lost it some support.
For an artist, only trying to depict the Deity could be more impious than drawing Muhammad.
In Saudi Arabia today, a liberal blogger, Raif Badawi, received the first 50 of the 1,000 lashes to which he has been condemned (along with a 10-year prison sentence) because of the allegedly impious contents of a website he founded.
But at home some people said that the Great Fire of London in 1666, and an outbreak of bubonic plague a year earlier—Daniel Defoe's "Plague Year"—was God's way of punishing England for tolerating such an impious wretch.
The Sudanese army called the resolution a "declaration of war" and vowed to fight any "crusader" army that sets an impious foot on Sudanese soil.
Proof that the West is incorrigibly impious?
Each cosmos has three different realms, each of which is within the confines of samsara (the ongoing cycle of birth, death, and rebirth) and is regulated more or less strictly by the law of karma, according to which good and pious deeds are rewarded while evil and impious deeds are punished.
This view survives in some religious traditions, which hold that it is impious to speak the name of God, and equally in fairy tales like Rumpelstiltskin, where to gain the dwarf's name is to gain power over him.
