Irreverence is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for IRREVERENCE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• lack of reverence
• a lack of respect for people or things that are generally taken seriously
• The state or quality of being irreverent; want of proper reverence; disregard of the authority and character of a superior.
• an irreverent mental attitude
• a disrespectful act

Words related to IRREVERENCE

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Words that contain IRREVERENCE

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How to use IRREVERENCE in a sentence

• Choate does a great injustice to the Republican Party when he lays this irreverence for the past to their charge.
• As gladiator his philosophy was mixed of fatalism, cynical irreverence, a semi-military instinct of obedience, short-sightedness and self-will.
• Restoration in these days always implies irreverence and bad taste.
• Hines so simply and loyally that no suggestion of irreverence could attach to him.
• Beecher has been censured for irreverence, when what was called his irreverence has seemed to us but the tenderness engendered of close connection.
• When they pray, it is with a familiarity bordering on irreverence, and when they deal with sacred themes it is with a lightness that breeds contempt.
• The book appeared under the Regency, and bears the imprint of it in the licentiousness of the descriptions and the witty irreverence of the criticisms.
• It was a mere impossibility to reconcile any real allegiance to his church with his known irreverence to religion.
• Probably this boldness began, not in scepticism or in irreverence, but in honest familiar faith.
• But the signs of irreverence and neglect are continually before us.
• Either the effort to rise above and beyond their own first ideas was too great for them, or there might, perhaps, have seemed to be an irreverence in doing so.
• But his involuntary irreverence brought abundant grace with it.
• Saving the appearance of irreverence, we maintain his assertion to be just, based on impregnable morality.
• Francis, whence it had been taken, with the same irreverence.
• The irreverence which was not dangerous then, is now intolerable.
• And, too, they have no religion to restrict them, irreverence already marks their attitude toward their gods.
• Unconscious of irreverence, she thought that surely the saints had worked this wonder.
• They were generally drunk and disorderly, and their rudeness, irreverence, and quarrels were a scandal to the solemn occasion.
• No irreverence, no lightness, even no too familiar allusion to God and his attributes, ever escaped his lips.
• They brought to the royal and ancient game a spirit of Bohemian irreverence and banter that offended his serious enthusiasm.
• It is modest, cleanly and without malice or irreverence.
• He appeared by years an older and a graver man, and when he sat by her during the service in the wide parlor, there was not a trace of his old flippant irreverence.
• This state of impiety and irreverence can never be tolerated by the devout Shintoists.
• First let me say that if there should seem to be the faintest tinge of irreverence in aught I write, I tell my story badly.
• But I fear such an expedient might give rise to a spirit of irreverence.
• The Eskimoes at Hopedale have been known to take the Newfoundland fishermen to task for irreverence.
• Irreverence and profanity, under whatever pretext, are without excuse, even beneath the mask of holy zeal and ardent devotion.
• Some popular proverbs indicate this in a form that easily lends itself to irreverence and merriment.
• The hysterical protests against the irreverence of examination fell on deaf ears.

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