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
Eschewing a typical opening segment filled with irreverent jokes and a rundown of the headlines the week prior, Oliver switched up the program’s rhythm by quickly transitioning to the show’s — not one, but two — topics at hand: mass deportation and a strange feature of the naturalization process.
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Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 27 Oct. 2024
Fast-forward 13 years and Chubbies has created a $100 million-plus business that has moved beyond just shorts to include swimwear, polos, T-shirts, hoodies, loungewear, pants and other basic menswear pieces for regular guys who appreciate its irreverent attitude and everyday man assortment.
—Jean E. Palmieri, WWD, 21 Oct. 2024
Sacha Baron Cohen has a knack for transformative roles, playing oafish Italian barbers and irreverent Kazakhstani journalists.
—Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2024
The first season was so aggressively irreverent — toward politics, television, and even comedy itself — that SNL, now in its 50th season, still has something of an outlaw reputation, even as it’s become much more of an institutional behemoth over the decades.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2024
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Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 27 Oct. 2024
Fast-forward 13 years and Chubbies has created a $100 million-plus business that has moved beyond just shorts to include swimwear, polos, T-shirts, hoodies, loungewear, pants and other basic menswear pieces for regular guys who appreciate its irreverent attitude and everyday man assortment.
—Jean E. Palmieri, WWD, 21 Oct. 2024
Sacha Baron Cohen has a knack for transformative roles, playing oafish Italian barbers and irreverent Kazakhstani journalists.
—Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2024
The first season was so aggressively irreverent — toward politics, television, and even comedy itself — that SNL, now in its 50th season, still has something of an outlaw reputation, even as it’s become much more of an institutional behemoth over the decades.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for irreverent
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Separated a documentary film directed by Errol Morris Adam Kirsch In Search of Fullness In his new book, the philosopher Charles Taylor looks at modern poetry as a unique record of spiritual experience in a secular age.Erin Maglaque, The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2024
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The analysts said electricity demand is entering an era of secular growth driven by electrical infrastructure investments over the coming years.Paulina Likos, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2024
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Many Muslims consider depictions of prophets to be blasphemous.Reuters, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024
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Other critics have called the Trump Bible blasphemous.Richard Lardner and Dake Kang, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2024
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The cartoon images were deeply offensive to many Muslims, who viewed them as sacrilegious.David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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Grills are about elemental things—wood, fire, meat—adding Wi-Fi to that seems almost sacrilegious.Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 13 Sep. 2020
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This game must have seemed profane to the Greeks, or even impious.Simone Weil, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
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Both narratives, private and public, differently restrict our access, so the ideal historian will need great tact and an impious curiosity.James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
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“Irreverent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irreverent. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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