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[ US /ˌɪˈɹɛvɝənt/ ]
[ UK /ɪɹˈɛvɹənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. not revering god
  2. characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality
    a certain irreverent gaiety and ease of manner
  3. showing lack of due respect or veneration
    noisy irreverent tourists
    irreverent scholars mocking sacred things

How To Use irreverent In A Sentence

  • The first smash hit of the 2007-2008 Broadway season turned out to be one of the biggest surprises in Broadway history †“Xanadu.” People are calling a hilariously reinvented send-up of the 1980’s Olivia Newton-John film, this irreverent musical adventure, about following your dreams when others say you shouldn’t, spins along to the addictive original hit film score by pop-rock legends Jeff Lynne and John Farrar. Whoopi Roller Skates ‘Xanadu’
  • It's showbizzy, ingenious, affectionate but irreverent. Times, Sunday Times
  • The name sustained an irreverent homage to the monarchy, armored with irony after his flight from fascist Europe. Allan M. Jalon: Arts Lust: Central Europe's Underwear Showing
  • Miss Burney protested indignantly, her long thin nose turning pink with mortification at this irreverent piece of mimicry
  • It's great theatre: it's irreverent, rude to the establishment and is prepared to take chances.
  • The irreverent cook can, of course, substitute the tandoor with an electric oven, and the oven with a covered saucepan, and so on.
  • The most interesting thing, if you ask me, is how "the irreverent, oppositional ethic that controlled pirate identity" winds up as the theme of family rides at these parks.
  • But the irreverent Honeymouth, trying to maintain his poise, prodded me, saying, Come on, Superego. Dreamseller: The Calling
  • Again, like today's, its doings were chronicled by an irreverent, iconoclastic press eager for celebrity gossip and social scandal.
  • a certain irreverent gaiety and ease of manner
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