irreverent

Example Sentences

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The irreverent news website had seemingly cracked the code for social-media virality, and would soon become one of the first digital-media startups to achieve unicorn status with a valuation of over $1 billion.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 13, 2026

Leonard Bernstein was commissioned to write a theatrical piece for the center’s opening in 1971, which turned out to be an irreverent “Mass” — musically, liturgically, culturally and, most assuredly, politically.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026

So abrasive are its words and affecting its tune that the agnostic and irreverent journalist H.L.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 25, 2026

And gone was the owner of the irreverent nickname "Fatty Lai": he had lost considerable weight.

From BBC • Dec. 20, 2025

These aspirations are not, I think, irreverent, although they may trouble whatever gods may be.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan