antireligious

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for antireligious
Adjective
  • Silverstein had a much different experience growing up, given the fact that his parents were both Baalei teshuva (irreligious Jews who become more observant later in life).
    Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Finishing off the top 5 is religious flick The Forge with an irreligious weekend take-home of $6.6.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2024
Adjective
  • Highlights of the book with the proudly, grammatically incorrect title include rants against nature, those godless Hollywood liberals, and how everything is trying to turn red-blooded Americans gay.
    Brian Boone, Vulture, 18 June 2025
  • Shortly after hearing the stories of brave and faithful LGBTQ Catholics in Uganda, Pope Francis smartly and compassionately used his voice to warn against the unjust and godless laws.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The only true dictionary is the lost one, the dictionary of the language that perished when the impious tower was built: the original language, God’s language.
    Mariana Dimópulos, Harpers Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
  • This game must have seemed profane to the Greeks, or even impious.
    Simone Weil, Harper's Magazine, 2 July 2024
Adjective
  • But today’s escalating tensions go back to 1953, when British oil companies and the CIA orchestrated a coup and installed the Shah of Iran, a secular ruler willing to accommodate Big Oil and other corporate interests in the West.
    Robert Polner, New York Daily News, 23 June 2025
  • While many are motivated by religious believes, other secular walkers do it as a ‘mindful’ journey, a physical achievement or as a practical way to explore European culture, historical sites and history itself.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025
Adjective
  • In 2016, a record number of faithless votes were cast.
    Robert Alexander and Anna Dawley, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Don Cheadle and Benicio del Toro are both quite good as part of a team that’s tasked with stealing a secret document, setting the stage for a drama involving gangsters, faithless lovers, and white-collar crooks.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • For me, being a man controlled by God, things that are blasphemous always alert me.
    Angel Diaz, Billboard, 2 May 2025
  • Many Muslims found some of the depictions offensive and even blasphemous.
    Lola Fadulu, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Together, these unholy alliances change rules, fire bureaucrats, silence critics, and then eat up the country’s resources.
    Elizabeth David-Barrett, Foreign Affairs, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Given China’s unholy alliance with Russia, Iran, and North Korea — and America’s friendship ...
    Arthur Herman, National Review, 3 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • If Jimmy and his gang are any indication, the next film will eschew cancer drama for something more irreverent and even weirder than the turns 28 Years Later takes.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 20 June 2025
  • And those are not without their pleasures and irreverent homages to film tropes in various genres.
    Lindsey Bahr, Boston Herald, 19 June 2025
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“Antireligious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antireligious. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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