churchless

Definition of churchlessnext

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for churchless
Adjective
  • Diana’s husband, James, is an unchurched priest who preaches love and practices intolerance.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Churches provided a place and a space for grieving, contemplation and reflection on the part of the great unchurched majority of the nation and for adherents of minority faiths.
    Town & Country, Town & Country, 5 May 2023
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
  • 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
  • Solstices are often associated with pagan religions and draw revelers of different faiths.
    Julia Gomez, USA Today, 20 June 2026
  • There’s more than a tinge of folk horror to this lingering mystery, which brings to mind the 1973 genre landmark The Wicker Man, in which a puritanical police officer travels to a remote island community that’s reverted to old pagan ways.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 15 June 2026
Adjective
  • Florida statutes creating the charter school framework also require those schools to be nonreligious.
    Gray Rohrer, Sun Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Republicans vow to appeal Arkansas ruling Last year, seven Arkansas families of various religious and nonreligious backgrounds filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s new law requiring all public elementary and secondary schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom and library.
    Sara Cline, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2026
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“Churchless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/churchless. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.

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