as in atheistic
not showing proper reverence for the holy or sacred
irreverent behavior during church services
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Recent Examples of irreverent
Shamaly has light brown skin, an irreverent sense of humor, and a loner’s mien.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates,
Vanity Fair,
15 June 2026
His passion and pride in the work, down to earth and sometimes irreverent style, and the reverence for small business owners and hard working people only enriched our lives and well as many others as well.
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Matt Schooley,
CBS News,
15 June 2026
There is irreverent and unexpected.
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Oskar Garcia,
New York Times,
15 June 2026
Their earliest performances could be fun and irreverent, too, but Boy George says they were also marred by ignorant, homophobic heckling.
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Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
14 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for irreverent
Ta-Nehisi Coates,
Vanity Fair,
15 June 2026
His passion and pride in the work, down to earth and sometimes irreverent style, and the reverence for small business owners and hard working people only enriched our lives and well as many others as well.
—
Matt Schooley,
CBS News,
15 June 2026
There is irreverent and unexpected.
—
Oskar Garcia,
New York Times,
15 June 2026
Their earliest performances could be fun and irreverent, too, but Boy George says they were also marred by ignorant, homophobic heckling.
—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
14 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for irreverent
Recent Examples of Synonyms for irreverent
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His father's death during World War II influenced his pursuit of the ministry even amid the officially atheistic communist regime of the Soviet Union, according to his obituary on the OCU website.
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But there has been a recent rise in secular congregations that explicitly mimic religious organizations and rituals to celebrate atheistic worldviews.
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Yet as the populations there shrink, populations are booming in less prosperous and less secular regions, including Africa and the Middle East.
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The encyclical has attracted serious attention from secular quarters as well.
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Many of their performances are blasphemous, and their work only displays hate and mockery of Catholics and the Christian faith.
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This way of approaching the story would help make its portrait of Jesus all the more human, and, to some, all the more blasphemous.
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Even the recipe deemed sacrilegious in Carbonaragate cannot evoke the same dramatic reactions or touch the same sensitivities that surround cheese—a relationship that, like wine and bread, is often inseparable from faith, sometimes quite literally.
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In any other context, a house of God smattered with people staring at their phones, trusting AI to speak to them, might feel sacrilegious.
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Many other traditionalists have made a version of Scruton’s critique, insisting that contemporary art reflects self-indulgent, relativistic, and impious tendencies.
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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.
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Crow-Armstrong’s poor offensive start doomed his chance to start, while the bad national publicity stemming from a viral video of his profane reaction to a harassing female White Sox fan probably didn’t help matters.
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And yet, in their quest for culinary perfection, and as Carmy evaluates his decision to retire, the group pulls together without resorting to the profane, deafening chaos that characterized their previous work, almost entirely thanks to Sydney’s opposite-in-every-way leadership style.
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Solstices are often associated with pagan religions and draw revelers of different faiths.
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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.
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“Irreverent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irreverent. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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