impiously

1. 1.

   in an impious manner

   “the young members challenged their leader impiously”

Questions about impiously

What does impiously mean?

impiously means "in an impious manner".

How many syllables are in impiously?

impiously has 4 syllables: im-pi-ou-sly. The stress falls on "pi".

Is impiously a common word?

impiously is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.