antireligious

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for antireligious
Adjective
  • Stewart’s switch from his usual snark to imitate Colbert’s buffoonery proved how spiteful and irreligious political humor has become since the left’s worship of Barack Obama and subsequent persecution of President Trump.
    Armond White, National Review, 25 July 2025
  • Silverstein had a much different experience growing up, given the fact that his parents were both Baalei teshuva (irreligious Jews who become more observant later in life).
    Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Highlights of the book with the proudly, grammatically incorrect title include rants against nature, those godless Hollywood liberals, and how everything is trying to turn red-blooded Americans gay.
    Brian Boone, Vulture, 18 June 2025
  • Shortly after hearing the stories of brave and faithful LGBTQ Catholics in Uganda, Pope Francis smartly and compassionately used his voice to warn against the unjust and godless laws.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The only true dictionary is the lost one, the dictionary of the language that perished when the impious tower was built: the original language, God’s language.
    Mariana Dimópulos, Harpers Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
  • This game must have seemed profane to the Greeks, or even impious.
    Simone Weil, Harper's Magazine, 2 July 2024
Adjective
  • The secular shift is evident in the slope of the monthly cloud model, which points higher looking out to mid-2027.
    Katie Stockton, CNBC, 28 July 2025
  • The operating environment remains challenging for all ad sellers, particularly legacy companies coping with the secular decline of linear TV.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 22 July 2025
Adjective
  • In 2016, a record number of faithless votes were cast.
    Robert Alexander and Anna Dawley, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Don Cheadle and Benicio del Toro are both quite good as part of a team that’s tasked with stealing a secret document, setting the stage for a drama involving gangsters, faithless lovers, and white-collar crooks.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • In Europe, the painting was received as a blasphemous shock.
    Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 11 July 2025
  • There’s a quiet and, some might argue, blasphemous revolution happening.
    Trinity Francis, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
Adjective
  • Iommi added the diabolus in musica, an eerie tritone musical interval denounced as unholy and dangerous since the Middle Ages.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 25 July 2025
  • Stewart’s routine was both uninspired and unholy — an act that failed to edify any audience.
    Armond White, National Review, 25 July 2025
Adjective
  • Kealoha was an irreverent rascal on set Everyone on the panel — and several other Lilo & Stitch team members in behind-the-scenes footage — agreed that Kealoha was a force to be reckoned with on set.
    Sharareh Drury, People.com, 26 July 2025
  • In the meantime, more questions could arise about the future of other irreverent late-night talk shows in light of its fate.
    Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 July 2025
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“Antireligious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antireligious. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.

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