irreverential

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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

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

His babblings are not more crude and irreverential than much that passes for profound thinking.

From A Hero and Some Other Folks by Quayle, William A. (William Alfred)

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)

Yet how is it possible to say an unkind or irreverential word of Rome?

From The Marble Faun - Volume 1 The Romance of Monte Beni by Hawthorne, Nathaniel