unreverent

Never heard I from his lips word unreverent toward her; and if other lips spake the same to his knowing, they forthank [regretted] it.

In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers Emily Sarah Holt 1864

‘I don’t want to be unreverent to her ladyship; but

Two on a Tower 2006

Should run thy head from thy unreverent shoulders.

The Life and Death of Richard the Second 2004

Once, it is true, this possibility had loomed up large before the Marshalls, when a high-protection legislature objected loudly to the professor's unreverent attitude towards the tariff.

The Bent Twig Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

Should run thy head from thy unreverent shoulders.

Act II. Scene I. The Tragedy of King Richard the Second 1914

'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.

Two on a Tower Thomas Hardy 1884

He raged and threatened on his way to punishment, but it did no good; he was snatched roughly along by the officers, and got an occasional cuff, besides, for his unreverent conduct.

The Prince and the Pauper; a tale for young people of all ages 1882

As for the interment, there was nothing but even-down wastrie -- wax-candles blowing away in the wind, and flunkies as fou as pipers, and an unreverent mob that scarsely could demean themselves with decency as the body was going by; only the Duke of York, who carrit the head, had on no hat, which I think was the newest identical thing in the affair: but really there was nothing that could be recommended.

The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family John Galt 1809

Should run thy head from thy unreverent shoulders.

The Tragedy of King Richard II 1593

Lords of the Ghostland "is neither reverent nor irreverent, it is unreverent.

The Merry-Go-Round Carl Van Vechten 1922