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
The 2025 edition of the Sundance Film Festival—poised to run from January 23 to February 2 in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah—finds the beloved mountainside showcase at its most idiosyncratic: starry, of course, but also independently minded, irreverent, and often delightfully weird.
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Radhika Seth, Vogue, 11 Jan. 2025
Suddenly, looks that might have seemed dated by decades felt fresh, fun, and even a little irreverent.
—Maggie Gillette, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Jan. 2025
Urban Cowboy Brooklyn was intimate and irreverent, a bohemian outpost that quickly became a hub for creatives, locals and travelers.
—Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
This newfound liberation has manifested in collaborations like this one with The St. Regis, as well as a series of irreverent marketing campaigns that have captivated his fans and followers.
—Ritu Upadhyay, WWD, 13 Dec. 2024
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Radhika Seth, Vogue, 11 Jan. 2025
Suddenly, looks that might have seemed dated by decades felt fresh, fun, and even a little irreverent.
—Maggie Gillette, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Jan. 2025
Urban Cowboy Brooklyn was intimate and irreverent, a bohemian outpost that quickly became a hub for creatives, locals and travelers.
—Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
This newfound liberation has manifested in collaborations like this one with The St. Regis, as well as a series of irreverent marketing campaigns that have captivated his fans and followers.
—Ritu Upadhyay, WWD, 13 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for irreverent
Adjective
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Lynch plays Cole as a secular prophet, a grand and monumental presence dispensing wisdom and judgment with a self-deprecating yet oracular intensity.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
17 Jan. 2025
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This actually put the current valuation at 25x long-term earnings, which could be considered reasonable with the strong balance sheet and long-term secular growth.—
GuruFocus,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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However, the group is often met with pushback from Christians, who view Satanism as an illegitimate religion and a blasphemous group that should not be entitled to First Amendment protections.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
16 Dec. 2024
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The images, which many Muslims considered blasphemous, were at the heart of the controversy that led to Paty's death.—
Benedict Cosgrove,
Newsweek,
20 Dec. 2024
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But the French debate over whether to show images of Muhammad, which many Muslims view as sacrilegious, is still being waged today.—
Colette Davidson,
The Christian Science Monitor,
8 Jan. 2025
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Griswold—whose father, once the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, consecrated the denomination’s first openly gay bishop—treats the pastors generously, though gingerly, constructing from their lowest moments an affecting study of sacred life in sacrilegious times.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Aug. 2024
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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 1 Feb. 2025.
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