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Irreverent   /ɪrˈɛvərənt/   Listen
Irreverent

adjective
1.
Showing lack of due respect or veneration.  "Noisy irreverent tourists"
2.
Characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality.  Synonyms: impertinent, pert, saucy.
3.
Not revering god.  Synonym: godless.





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"Irreverent" Quotes from Famous Books



... British force in Flanders would doubtless meet with his warm approval. After a little more fencing, Pitt gave the name of the Marquis Cornwallis, who had just returned from his Viceroyalty in India. Mack by no means welcomed the proposal, and made the irreverent remark that the best General, after fighting elephants in India, would be puzzled by the French. Pitt thereupon observed that the Duke of York had not the confidence of the army, to which Mack and Merveldt replied by praising ...
— William Pitt and the Great War • John Holland Rose
... you prevail on him to exhibit to you this solemn record, which he will open with befitting reverence, the faintest suspicion of a smile curling on your lip will suffuse him with a lively sorrow for your lost condition, mixed with righteous indignation towards the irreverent folly whereof you have been guilty. He finds a great deal beyond sermons in stones, and can point out to you a certain piece of rather confused-looking architecture, which he terms a symbolical epitome of all knowledge, human and divine—an ...
— The Book-Hunter - A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author • John Hill Burton
... Dr. Y Chi Tung worrying about any components he might have "requisitioned" seemed almost irreverent to Mike. Budget Control would gladly have given that eminent physicist a good half of the entire space station, if he had expressed his needs through the proper channels—as a matter of fact, anything on board that wasn't actually essential to the lives ...
— Where I Wasn't Going • Walt Richmond
... simply wrong to live without them,' cried Ursula. 'No, it is so IRREVERENT to think that everything must be realised in the head. Really, something must be left to the Lord, there always is and ...
— Women in Love • D. H. Lawrence
... she said sternly. 'You may be an idiot but you need not be an irreverent idiot. It is no more than decent to be weeping and wailing because the Almighty is the sole stay of the Allies now. As for Kitchener, his death is a great loss and I do not dispute it. But the outcome of this war does ...
— Rilla of Ingleside • Lucy Maud Montgomery


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