irreligious

Example Sentences

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"Not only is this a sacred day, the most sacred in the Jewish calendar, but it's also a time of mass gathering, and the time when the Jewish community, however religious or irreligious, gathers together."

From BBC • Oct. 2, 2025

“It’s not the revolution that turned some into atheists or irreligious; the revolution gave them the freedom and courage to speak up,” Elmihy said.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 4, 2023

A Christmas Eve gathering might assemble irreligious friends, a meet-the-artist event at the shop might end up twice the size at her place.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2022

Such self-conscious and deliberatively irreligious people are to be distinguished from the lackadaisically unaffiliated — often called "nones" — who simply don't identify with a religion.

From Salon • Aug. 21, 2021

Clergymen, like Transcendentalists, in England were generally conservative, or reactionary; and the friends of reform were much more irreligious than in America.

From Liberty In The Nineteenth Century by Holland, Frederic May