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Adjective: irreverent  i're-vu-runt
  1. Showing lack of due respect or veneration
    "irreverent scholars mocking sacred things"; "noisy irreverent tourists"
     
  2. Characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality
    "a certain irreverent gaiety and ease of manner"
    - impertinent, pert, saucy
     
  3. Not revering god
    - godless

See also: aweless, awless, blasphemous, disrespectful, impious, irreverence, irreverently, profane, sacrilegious, spirited

Antonym: reverent

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