irreverential

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Although they produce a conviction of declining virtue, which is unfavorable to generous emulation, yet a people at once ignorant and irreverential would necessarily become licentious.

From Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose by Dickey, J. M. (John Marcus)

At this period the Fête des Fous, or feast of madmen was celebrated to its full extent, and anything more absurd, more farcical, or more irreverential cannot well be imagined.

From How to Enjoy Paris in 1842 Intended to Serve as a Companion and Monitor, Containing Historical, Political, Commercial, Artistical, Theatrical And Statistical Information by Hervé, F.

To say the truth, I look upon it as such a masterpiece in its way, that it seems irreverential to eat it.

From Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Have you noticed what a disruptive and irreverential brood they are?

From South Wind by Douglas, Norman

The holy rites of hospitality are by you abused and set at naught; and the very roof which shelters you is desecrated with the marks of your irreverential contempt for all things human and divine.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 346, December 13, 1828 by Various