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Meanings of irreligious in English

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Hostile or indifferent to religion.

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        ateo

        Indifferent to religious matter.

              Usage of irreligious in English
              1
              Christina Rossetti's practice of pasting heavy paper over irreligious passages in Swinburne.
              The last novel
              2
              There are virtues exhibited in the lives of even wholly irreligious men.
              The Teaching of Jesus
              3
              When grief falls on the irreligious soul, it seeks relief in crime.
              Alvira: The Heroine of Vesuvius
              4
              This too was natural: the ten tribes had been always lamentably irreligious.
              Erewhon; Or, Over the Range
              5
              Superstition is believed in by persons accounted neither irreligious nor desperately profane.
              The Mysteries of All Nations / Rise and Progress of Superstition...
              6
              She could not be essentially irreligious-thatwere impossible in a true woman.
              Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908
              7
              But Christians now are too much under the influence of irreligious fashion.
              The Christian Home / As it is in the Sphere of Nature and the Ch...
              8
              If we happen to be irreligious, we do not believe in ghosts.
              Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life
              9
              Hitler was totally irreligious and had no interest in honour or ethics.
              Modern Times
              10
              The publication was targeted for its irreligious representations of the Prophet Muhammad.
              The Irish Times
              11
              But we doubt whether he had thought of suicide, an irreligious act.
              Les Misérables
              12
              Our national schools are frankly irreligious, our teachers people of weak credentials.
              Authors of Greece
              13
              An irreligious man-nomatter what his genius may be-isalways a starveling.
              Lessons in Life; A Series of Familiar Essays
              14
              But what would these people say should they themselves be proved irreligious?
              Letters on England
              15
              Is a religious tyrant any less a tyrant than an irreligious one?
              Superstition In All Ages (1732) / Common Sense
              16
              You can't say you won't be an angel, because 'twould be irreligious.
              The Port of Adventure
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              Irreligious through the time
              Irreligious across language varieties
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