How to Use irreligious in a Sentence

irreligious

adjective

• These early modern thinkers were not irreligious men; in fact, many of them were deeply pious, devoted to the Catholic or Reformed church.
  — Steven Nadler, Time, 12 Sep. 2017
• Note that the set who fall into this class is larger than those who are irreligious, and much larger than atheists and agnostics.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 13 Sep. 2010
• But the play also explores the complicated bonds between friends, between old lovers, between the pious and the irreligious, and between father and son.
  — The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
• Trump, thrice married and irreligious, has lived a life of opulence and publicity.
  — Karim Sadjadpour, Time, 3 Oct. 2019
• The numbers remained virtually unchanged and declared a clear preference for the faithful over the irreligious.
  — Scott Canon, kansascity.com, 1 May 2017
• Though a profane and irreligious man, Trump sees the Middle East and broader foreign policy through a religious prism (a sign, perhaps, of Bannon’s influence).
  — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 22 May 2017
• The notion of a gay, irreligious man painting flamboyant popes and crucifixions, and then framing them in a way that self-consciously evokes the canon, is more amusing than most critics acknowledge.
  — Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 7 Apr. 2021
• Then again, Nietzsche (with his famously irreligious views) might seem as curious a presence in a monastic library as a cartoon tiger.
  — oregonlive, 14 May 2022
• The Haitian slave revolt at the turn of the 19th century was instigated by and for Christianized Africans, although whites depicted those seeking their freedom as irreligious savages.
  — Andrew Lawler, Smithsonian, 7 Feb. 2017
• The Haitian slave revolt at the turn of the 19th century was instigated by and for Christianized Africans, although whites depicted those seeking their freedom as irreligious savages.
  — Andrew Lawler, Smithsonian, 7 Feb. 2017
• The former is very much a Millennial, at once underachieving, irreligious, and beset by ennui.
  — Ross Douthat, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
• This is the hard part for many intellectuals, religious or irreligious, to understand.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 25 Apr. 2013
• Modern liberalism draws much of its strength from younger Americans — Millennials who are more irreligious than their forebears.
  — Jeff Cimmino, National Review, 13 July 2017
• The brothers profess surprise at the presence of a Protestant minister, their father having dabbled in Buddhism, briefly converted to Judaism, and otherwise been thoroughly irreligious.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2022
• The idea that the Vatican, with its doctrine of papal infallibility, would invite open debate about official religious doctrine shocked religious and irreligious people around the world.
  — Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 25 June 2019
• Strict new quotas throttle religious education to the degree that some Hui intellectuals predict their people could become largely irreligious, like most of China, in two or three generations.
  — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
• If the irreligious ever get serious about flexing their muscles politically, a lot could change in this country, particularly on church-state separation issues.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 11 May 2018
• Throughout his campaign and early in his presidency, the unflappable support of many religious voters for an outwardly irreligious and lascivious politician confounded many in Washington and the media.
  — Peter Manseau, The New Republic, 18 Sep. 2020
• In Indonesia, for example, social media is encouraging irreligious millennials to become born-again, ultra-orthodox Muslims as part of a movement known as hijrah.
  — Shoaib Daniyal, Quartz India, 4 June 2019
• And our country’s rapidly fragmenting political and cultural landscape casts frightening shadows when held up against a Church that continues its choppy engagement with an increasingly irreligious West.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2015
• Gift-giving and receiving divorced from the commemoration of the incarnation of Jesus Christ are lamented by conservatives as evidence of an increasing irreligious population.
  — Miles Smith Iv, National Review, 24 Dec. 2022
• Rivals, especially conservatives, initially dismissed him as a crude-mouthed, irreligious philanderer with little to offer besides celebrity and questionable business bona fides.
  — Dallas News, 15 Nov. 2022
• Look, the reviewer insinuated, where that irreligious, materialist theory had led: to revolution, Jacobinism, regicide, the Terror!
  — Jessica Riskin, The New York Review of Books, 11 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024