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
In the months leading up to the election, the Trump campaign conducted a full-court press to appeal to this demographic, aligning Mr. Trump with a constellation of podcast hosts and YouTubers who put out irreverent entertainment while validating young men’s frustrations with the status quo.
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Callie Holtermann, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2025
This new special is packed with the kind of wild, irreverent fun that only Robot Chicken can deliver.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2025
Photo: Courtesy the publisher Founded by six young British architects, Archigram, the irreverent architecture magazine with a cult following, has finally published volume ten, 50 years after the previous one.
—Morgan Meier, Curbed, 12 Feb. 2025
Some even shouted irreverent requests for the most obscure entries in the Macca canon.
—Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 12 Feb. 2025
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Callie Holtermann, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2025
This new special is packed with the kind of wild, irreverent fun that only Robot Chicken can deliver.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2025
Photo: Courtesy the publisher Founded by six young British architects, Archigram, the irreverent architecture magazine with a cult following, has finally published volume ten, 50 years after the previous one.
—Morgan Meier, Curbed, 12 Feb. 2025
Some even shouted irreverent requests for the most obscure entries in the Macca canon.
—Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 12 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for irreverent
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This expansion of cooperation in Israel’s energy security with Azerbaijan – a secular state with a Muslim Shi’a majority, builds on over thirty years of cordial relations and joint projects in defense, energy, culture, air transportation, and foreign policy.—
Wesley Alexander Hill,
Forbes,
8 Mar. 2025
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Social uprisings over the next centuries lost the religious character of the 1525 conflict and would climax in the decidedly secular French Revolution.—
Michael Bruening,
The Conversation,
25 Feb. 2025
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Jones is 6'4, right handed, physical, and does all that on the worst team in the league, but Leafs fans act like paying him 9.5M is blasphemous.—
Kevin Papetti,
The Athletic,
23 Feb. 2025
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Many Muslims found some of the depictions offensive and even blasphemous.—
Lola Fadulu,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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Drinking a Bloody Mary at night just feels wrong and confusing, sacrilegious even, which is hilarious because everything else goes.—
Jeremy Repanich,
Robb Report,
7 Feb. 2025
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Loading your audio article SAN FRANCISCO — NBA commissioner Adam Silver understandably defended mounting criticism of the 3-point shot, and saying anything else would have been sacrilegious in the house Steph Curry built with his unparalleled 3-point prowess.—
Cam Inman,
The Mercury News,
15 Feb. 2025
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This game must have seemed profane to the Greeks, or even impious.—
Simone Weil,
Harper's Magazine,
2 July 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 13 Mar. 2025.
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