Irreverent is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for IRREVERENT in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• lacking reverence
• showing a lack of respect for people or things that are generally taken seriously
• Not reverent; showing a want of reverence; expressive of a want of veneration; as, an irreverent babbler; an irreverent jest.
• showing lack of due respect or veneration
• characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality
• not revering god
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• lacking proper respect or seriousness; satiric

Words related to IRREVERENT

irreverently18 unreverent13

Words that contain IRREVERENT

irreverently18 irreverential16

How to use IRREVERENT in a sentence

• The stories sound irreverent, and are often repeated as highly amusing, but they are really more pathetic.
• Not an irreverent symptom of a sound was to be heard.
• Among the Greeks and Romans, again, those sages who dared face Nature like reasonable men, were accused by the superstitious mob as irreverent impious atheists.
• His denial of the Visible Church, as represented by the Pope and Cardinals, sprang not from an irreverent, but from a reverent spirit.
• SELBY Good words, gentle Kate, And not a thought irreverent of our Widow.
• Friend Hopper, who was always disturbed by irreverent use of the name of Deity, was peculiarly shocked by it under these solemn circumstances.
• Honest and loyal Rebel, though I do not accept your service, neither do I refuse it in an unseemly and irreverent manner.
• Only once did he express disapproval of anything it contained, and that was in 1888, when he felt it necessary to administer a rebuke for what he thought to be an irreverent joke.
• Bishops, if it be not irreverent to say so, are sometimes marked by a similar characteristic.
• It almost appears like a profane and irreverent juxtaposition to contrast fulness of the Spirit with fulness of wine.
• Its irreverent use of scripture quotations, and loose wit, are not to be overlooked, but there was no advocacy of atheism in it.
• We Yankees are a friendly lot, but not at all irreverent.
• Let us not seem presumptuous and irreverent in speaking thus.
• In doing so I make myself appear almost irreverent, but in no other way can I show you the possibilities of my work among the colored race.
• The newspapers are somewhat irreverent over the diplomatic protest against the bombardment.
• In writing, they deem it irreverent to express the Supreme Being by any special name.
• I found it hard to be brief without seeming irreverent.
• The Provencaux, who are born laughing, are not necessarily irreverent because even in sacred places they sometimes are frankly gay.
• This theologian was profoundly learned in the Oriental languages, but he was a reckless and irreverent critic.
• We utter no word that can be deemed irreverent by any one of any faith.
• The present writer has heard it spoken of lovingly, in half-Irish, by simple old people, whom to question would be cruel and irreverent.
• What would be deemed irreverent if spoken by some lips never sounded irreverent when uttered by such a natural, fearless and yet devout a spirit as Charles G.
• I say, then, that, in order to prove that I am not irreverent to the Majesty of the Empire, it is requisite, in the first place, to see what reverence is.
• There is great danger, in the attempt to bring under analysis any phase of religious belief, that the method of treatment may appear unsympathetic if not irreverent.
• Whom had God made responsible for power? What is a well-weighed conviction? These are questions about which the irreverent Americans might perchance differ with royalty.
• This suggests to Diderot to wonder with edifying innocence how so religious a people as the Romans endured these irreverent jests in their philosophers.
• There was, somehow, something a little irreverent about being her contemporary.
• I had no notion that I was wrong or irreverent to my tutor.
• Perhaps they are exaggerated by the Buddhist narrator, but they also reflect the irreverent exuberance of young thought.

Similar words containing REVER without suffix ent and without prefix ir

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