unreverent
- a word derived from reverent.
Example Sentences
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See not your bride in these unreverent robes; Go to my chamber, put on clothes of mine.
From The Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare, William
“Surely, Mrs Dorothy, ’twould be quite unreverent to think so.”
From The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) by Petherick, Horace
I don’t want to be unreverent to her ladyship; but I really don’t think she is meaning any such waste of a Christian carcase.
From Two on a Tower by Hardy, Thomas
Surely, my dear, it were more unreverent to think that God does not mean what He saith.
From The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) by Petherick, Horace
"The Lords of the Ghostland" is neither reverent nor irreverent, it is unreverent.
From The Merry-Go-Round by Van Vechten, Carl
