as in atheistical
not showing proper reverence for the holy or sacred
irreverent behavior during church services
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Recent Examples of irreverent
The second is an indie approach that’s often more confrontational, irreverent and angry at the injustice and indifference AIDS patients faced.
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Scott Malia, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025
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
The pic is a raunchy, irreverent coming-of-age comedy directed by Richard Goldgewicht and written by Goldgewicht, Matt Hamilton, and Abe Frank.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
Mentorship, Humor And Queer Resilience Reigns structures Outliving Michael as a series of vignettes, each poem distilling a memory that compounds to build a complete portrait of Church, a man of emotional depth and irreverent charm.
—R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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Scott Malia, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025
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
The pic is a raunchy, irreverent coming-of-age comedy directed by Richard Goldgewicht and written by Goldgewicht, Matt Hamilton, and Abe Frank.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
Mentorship, Humor And Queer Resilience Reigns structures Outliving Michael as a series of vignettes, each poem distilling a memory that compounds to build a complete portrait of Church, a man of emotional depth and irreverent charm.
—R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for irreverent
Adjective
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Hamas’s founding goal was to wrest control of the Palestinian national movement from its secular rivals and transform it into an Islamist cause.—
Hussein Ibish,
The Atlantic,
1 Oct. 2025
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Interview Jews, Israeli Arabs, Druze, orthodox, secular, etc.—
Jordan King,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Sharing song lyrics over WhatsApp that others deemed blasphemous against the Prophet Muhammad.—
Sean Nelson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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When a blasphemous pop star threatens to upend their happy life and displace the sisters, Mother Constance sets out to save the convent by any means necessary.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Think that's wild and somehow sacrilegious?—
Marcus K. Dowling,
Nashville Tennessean,
27 Sep. 2025
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Any extra trimmings would land somewhere between glib and sacrilegious.—
Sophie Monks Kaufman,
IndieWire,
3 Sep. 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
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“Irreverent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irreverent. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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