irreverently

[ir-ev-er-uhnt-lee, ir-ev-ruhnt-lee]

adverb

1. in a way that lacks reverence or respect for things that are considered serious or sacred.

Example Sentences

"And I said if I have to have another conversation about why we need to make the door handles more accessible I will chain myself to them - rather irreverently I might say."

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Objects and their historical hierarchies are irreverently jumbled in the show: Velázquez, the great Spanish painter, sits alongside Celaya’s childish doodles.

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That evening, Salonen conducted Adams’ Chamber Symphony, in which Glass and few other composers irreverently meet Schoenberg.

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Sony Pictures’ “Dumb Money,” expanded nationwide after two weeks of limited release but failed to ignite the kind of populist movement it irreverently dramatizes.

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Wolfe was a mythmaker who gained a mythical stature, with his white suit, contrarian takes and irreverently vivid way with words.

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