irreligious

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She could not be essentially irreligious -- that were impossible in a true woman.

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  1. adjective Hostile or indifferent to religion; ungodly.

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  • The crew of the vessel were profane and irreligious, the weather boisterous and unpleasant; while the spirits of the missionaries themselves were at a low ebb. —  Daughters of the Cross: or Woman's Mission
  • Argivians were nastily irreligious, and the devotion of various gods, real and otherwise, was a major political consideration in Kroog. —  JEFF GRUBB
  • Morality is not the sole prerogative of the religious - there are even reasons to think that the irreligious are more moral. —  Darwiniana
  • Coulter on her controversial comments regarding Jews and Christians: The "irreligious" are —  Media Matters for America - Limbaugh Wire
  • Many of those "irreligious" also self-identify as "spiritual but not religious." —  SocraticGadfly
 

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  1. = French irréligieux = Spanish Portuguese Italian irreligioso, from Late Latin irreligiosus, inreligiosus, irreligious, from Latin in- privative + religiosus, religious: see religious.
 

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/ɪrəˈlɪdʒəs/
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