religionless

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for religionless
Adjective
  • Compared with the heavenly bliss promised at the end of Revelation, Byron’s godless planet was bleak stuff indeed.
    Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
  • The ranks of the godless have stopped growing for now.
    Lauren Jackson, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • Ephraim — ambitious, socialist and irreligious — takes his family to Riga, Latvia, to Palestine and finally to France.
    Lauren Elkin, Washington Post, 16 May 2023
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
  • As de Kort tells Live Science, these treasures were buried in several deposits that might have constituted offerings to a pagan god—possibly Wodan, the Germanic persona of the Norse god Odin.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Others are young professionals, retired teachers, Republicans and Democrats, and religious and nonreligious people who are experienced in cross-cultural communication and jumping in for the first time.
    Carissa Zaffiro, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2025
  • What many of us nonreligious Americans do take issue with are religious displays that are sanctioned or funded by the government, or when one group is given preferential treatment over the rest of us.
    Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
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“Religionless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/religionless. Accessed 17 Apr. 2025.

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