irreverently

Adverb

Meaning

In an irreverent manner.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

sarcastically contemptuously brazenly audaciously insolently impertinently blasphemously profanely impudently saucily defiantly derisively rudely cheekily brashly
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Antonyms

reverently goodly completely fully correctly readily
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Examples

in the seventeenth century England had known fifty years of doctrinal quarrels and civil war; clergymen had been turned from their cures, and churches irreverently used Source: Internet

the student irreverently mimicked the teacher in his presence Source: Internet

She charged that Knox spoke irreverently of the Queen in order to make her appear contemptible to her subjects. Source: Internet

This third group took astrology seriously, possibly as a sacred canopy, whereas the other two groups took it playfully and irreverently. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

irreverend irreverent irreverential irreversable irreversibility irreversible