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
For an extra-inventive twist, Brazilian designer Lucas Simões recently unveiled the Colendra chair, a wild, sculptural example of metalworking that combines an irreverent sensibility with practiced craft.
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Rachel Gallaher, Robb Report, 4 Oct. 2025
Italian denim brand Diesel has been a fixture on the scene since the 1970s, celebrated for its edgy and irreverent styles that defined Italian streetwear.
—Abbey Hudetz, Travel + Leisure, 27 Sep. 2025
For his directorial debut, Early has created an irreverent comedy specific to his sensibilities.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 20 Sep. 2025
As has become tradition at the irreverent event, the in-person audience honors the winners by making and throwing paper airplanes.
—Jack Guy, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025
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Rachel Gallaher, Robb Report, 4 Oct. 2025
Italian denim brand Diesel has been a fixture on the scene since the 1970s, celebrated for its edgy and irreverent styles that defined Italian streetwear.
—Abbey Hudetz, Travel + Leisure, 27 Sep. 2025
For his directorial debut, Early has created an irreverent comedy specific to his sensibilities.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 20 Sep. 2025
As has become tradition at the irreverent event, the in-person audience honors the winners by making and throwing paper airplanes.
—Jack Guy, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for irreverent
Adjective
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Scheeres’s work also inspired me to research the troubled teen industry, the hidden arm of America’s prison industrial complex, a largely unregulated network of religious and secular therapeutic boarding schools, wilderness programs, private youth programs, and drug rehabilitation centers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Oct. 2025
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The movie subsequently gave its monsters a more secular origin story, the spawn of science run amok rather than some malevolent force of evil.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Stowe is known mainly for Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a novel profoundly informed by her Christian nationalist belief that the United States was failing in its mission to become a New Canaan, precisely because of the blasphemous practice of slavery.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Oct. 2025
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To say that Judge does not have a signature October moment is blasphemous and far from the truth.—
Andrew Wright,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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But how can considering sincere questions of faith and meaning within a place of worship be sacrilegious or desperate?—
Jordan King,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Oct. 2025
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Think that's wild and somehow sacrilegious?—
Marcus K. Dowling,
Nashville Tennessean,
27 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The only true dictionary is the lost one, the dictionary of the language that perished when the impious tower was built: the original language, God’s language.—
Mariana Dimópulos,
Harpers Magazine,
26 Mar. 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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“Irreverent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irreverent. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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