The word 'irreverent' is correct and usable in written English.
It is an adjective that means showing a lack of respect for people or things that are usually treated with respect. Example sentence: The student's irreverent comments during class made the teacher feel disrespected.
"In Germany, we aren't thrown by directors who are irreverent towards the original material," Peter Laudenbach, theatre critic for Süddeutsche Zeitung, says.
Maybe it was because it was supposed to be such as holy time but the irreverent Allen always seemed more mischievous at Christmas.
He is the irreverent breakfast DJ known for stirring his BBC Radio 2 listeners to life every weekday morning.
The fact that the magazine has produced a cover that manages somehow to be respectful and irreverent at the same time is a wonder.
Not everyone is perfect, but give PNG a bit more credit.Taavi DaviesLondonNow you mention idSIR – In the same edition of your much respected but sometimes deliciously irreverent publication, you talk about psychoanalysing England through football ("Between games", June 3rd) and about people doing "unmentionable things with dogs" (Lexington, June 3rd).
But the recent actions of several higher-ups at big Silicon Valley technology companies including Facebook and Microsoft have disproved that theory.Mark Zuckerberg, the irreverent founder of Facebook, the popular social network, posted a video online on August 13th showing him emptying a bucket of ice water over his head (pictured).
While some may find "Spamalot" trying a little too insistently to be madcap, others will be charmed by "The Song That Goes Like This," the musical's irreverent take on the soaring Broadway ballad.
The North Koreans gained some experience of how irreverent and ill-disciplined such a group can be when Madeleine Albright, America's former secretary of state, visited in 2000.This is the biggest group of American journalists to enter the country since then.
Since the end of the cold war, almost all sub-Saharan African countries have abandoned one-party politics, and dozens of lively, irreverent and sometimes downright scandalous newspapers have popped up.
Joni Ernst, a Republican candidate for Senate in Iowa, went from being an unknown to a frontrunner owing to her irreverent and attention-getting ads.
But last time he spoke out, against an attempt in 2000 to ban a novel, "Banquet for Seaweed", by a Syrian, Haydar Haydar, some Egyptian students rioted in protest against the book, which contains irreverent allusions to the Koran by jocular atheists.
