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irreligious
[ ir-i-lij-uhs ]
adjective
- not religious; not practicing a religion and feeling no religious impulses or emotions.
- showing or characterized by a lack of religion.
- showing indifference or hostility to religion:
irreligious statements.
Synonyms: , ,
Other Word Forms
- r·gdzܲ· adverb
- r·gdzܲ·Ա ····Dz··ٲ [ir-i-lij-ee-, os, -i-tee], noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of irreligious1
Example Sentences
As his second-in-command was quickly meeting with Pope Francis, the most irreligious man in America was using the occasion of Easter to slam his political enemies.
But those themes do not satisfy certain paradoxical values that also make up the conservative mindset: a rather irreligious appetite for worldly possessions, and the desire for a pseudo-empirical justification for greed.
They are not going to hold him to account for his heresies or irreligious pronouncements, because they don’t truly believe he is religious anyway, and they don’t care.
Trump, being so obviously irreligious, may initially seem like an odd choice to turn the U.S. into a Christian version of a country like Iran, where laws are based on far-right interpretations of religious texts.
“It’s not the revolution that turned some into atheists or irreligious; the revolution gave them the freedom and courage to speak up,” said Elmihy.
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