churchless

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
  • 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
  • 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
  • This attempt to turn back the clock included the purging of Christian texts from schools, the conversion of Christian churches into pagan temples, and religious persecution as it had been practiced in centuries past.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Over time, my conquistadors retired, and my pagan temples got demolished to make way for grocery stores.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • On a range of other views of government, political parties, and ideology in general, what’s happening with nonreligious young people is also happening among believers.
    Christian Paz, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • From a nonreligious perspective, the sense of reverent occasion is palpable, rippling out from Rome.
    Raven Smith, Vogue, 7 May 2025
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“Churchless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/churchless. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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