How to Use irreligious in a Sentence
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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
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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
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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
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Trump, thrice married and irreligious, has lived a life of opulence and publicity.
—Karim Sadjadpour, Time, 3 Oct. 2019
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The numbers remained virtually unchanged and declared a clear preference for the faithful over the irreligious.
—Scott Canon, kansascity.com, 1 May 2017
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The former is very much a Millennial, at once underachieving, irreligious, and beset by ennui.
—Ross Douthat, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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