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Adjective
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Bell, meanwhile, costars with Adam Brody in Nobody Wants This; the series follows an American rabbi (Brody, 45) and an agnostic woman who embark on a romantic relationship despite the odds against them.—
Tommy McArdle,
PEOPLE,
15 Sep. 2025 -
With the era’s signature tapered legs and rich, warm wood tone, this bed frame leans distinctly mid-century while still being design-agnostic enough to shift with your kid’s evolving tastes.—
Erika Owen,
Architectural Digest,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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All of it has a deeper religious meaning, but is also intended to appeal to the secular and spiritual.—
Lauren Costantino,
Miami Herald,
10 Sep. 2025
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Conversely, several secular growth trends are also benefitting the stock, including increasing mobile app usage and the rise of connected TV advertising.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Predictably, the hubbub surrounding the photo was eventually framed as a war between uptight virgins and godless heathens, with a quieter contingent astounded only by the fact that this kind of marketing could still be so effective.—
Amanda Petrusich,
New Yorker,
2 Sep. 2025
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On the fateful day that inbound Soviet bombers filled the skies above America with godless communism, the horizontal Bomarc missiles would literally become erect, and fire vertically.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Stewart’s switch from his usual snark to imitate Colbert’s buffoonery proved how spiteful and irreligious political humor has become since the left’s worship of Barack Obama and subsequent persecution of President Trump.—
Armond White,
National Review,
25 July 2025
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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
Adjective
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But isn't the whole idea blasphemous?—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
9 Sep. 2025
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This may sound blasphemous for a Fixed Earth sign, but spontaneity works best sometimes.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
23 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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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
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This game must have seemed profane to the Greeks, or even impious.—
Simone Weil,
Harper's Magazine,
2 July 2024
Adjective
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The whole this is very slapstick and irreverent, and the story is advanced almost exclusively by wacky deus ex machinas.—
James Folta,
Literary Hub,
10 Sep. 2025
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Her voice in the essays is sly and irreverent, knowing and persuasive—all qualities that endeared her to readers, despite her often excessively Manichean tone.—
Anderson Tepper,
The Atlantic,
8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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These statements were heretical in Athens, where Anaxagoras lived.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
20 Aug. 2025
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Although the French and Italian religious authorities welcomed their piety, those in Germany tended to suppress them as heretical and revolutionary.—
Michael Robbins,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Atheistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/atheistic. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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