antireligious

Definition of antireligiousnext

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for antireligious
Adjective
  • This story is told by an unnamed narrator, an irreligious woman who has joined the nuns as a lay resident after her faith in environmental advocacy crumbled.
    Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2026
  • And even the irreligious Bill de Blasio would join parishioners at the cathedral.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 9 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • What better way to distinguish God-fearing Americans from the godless communists of the Soviet Union than to put God on the money?
    David Williamson, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 June 2026
  • This is why calls to restore power to government institutions ring hollow, and why the Democratic Party’s faith in institutions can appear naive and godless.
    Scott Warren, The Atlantic, 13 June 2026
Adjective
  • Many other traditionalists have made a version of Scruton’s critique, insisting that contemporary art reflects self-indulgent, relativistic, and impious tendencies.
    Luis Parrales, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2026
  • While no formal announcement has been made to update its longstanding alcohol ban, Andrew Leber of Tulane University said this is in line with the Kingdom’s past approach to such potentially impious reforms.
    Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025
Adjective
  • Yet as the populations there shrink, populations are booming in less prosperous and less secular regions, including Africa and the Middle East.
    Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
  • The encyclical has attracted serious attention from secular quarters as well.
    Michael Posner, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
Adjective
  • The French had said the British were faithless.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 May 2026
  • When this inquiry was relayed to the Trump Administration, one Administration official told me last month, it was interpreted as a signal that Anthropic, which was then renegotiating its own contract with the federal government, was perhaps a faithless partner.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Many of their performances are blasphemous, and their work only displays hate and mockery of Catholics and the Christian faith.
    Jon Root OutKick, FOXNews.com, 6 June 2026
  • This way of approaching the story would help make its portrait of Jesus all the more human, and, to some, all the more blasphemous.
    Isaac Butler, New Yorker, 30 May 2026
Adjective
  • To get this far, the architects navigated an unholy gauntlet of constraints.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 8 June 2026
  • Some unholy mix of all of that?
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026
Adjective
  • Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude.
    Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 29 June 2026
  • The movie had an irreverent spark that felt refreshing, fueling its buoyancy and pumping blood to its ample heart.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 24 June 2026
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“Antireligious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antireligious. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.

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