sacrilegious

not showing proper reverence for the holy or sacred a sacrilegious, obscene joke—and told in church at that! Synonyms blasphemous, impious, profane, irreverentRelated Words agnostic, atheistic (or atheistical); godless, heretical (also heretic), irreligious, miscreant, nonreligious, religionless, secular; ungodly, unholy; unconsecrated, unhallowed; heathen, pagan, paganishNear Antonyms devout, God-fearing, godly, holy, prayerful, religious, sainted, saintly, worshipful, worshipping (also worshiping); consecrated, hallowed, sacred, sacrosanct, sanctifiedAntonyms pious, reverent