What's the difference between irreligious and irreligiously?
Irreligious
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of religion; not controlled by religious motives or principles; ungodly. Cf. Impious.
(a.) Indicating a want of religion; profane; wicked; as, irreligious speech.
Example Sentences:
(1) At a press conference following the judgment, Ramdev invited the gay community to his yoga ashram where he said he would "cure them of homosexuality", which he described as "unnatural, uncivilised, immoral, irreligious and abnormal".
(2) Fear of stigma, contact with the irreligious world, "yihud" with opposite sex therapists, suspicion of irreligious healers of the Jewish "nefesh", and seeing such a need as a sign of weakness of faith all serve to deter the religious patient from seeking help.
(3) The notion that The Catcher in the Rye is an immoral and irreligious work has largely given way to the antithetical view – that Salinger's chief impulse is specifically religious.
(4) Those who become radicalised typically come from irreligious backgrounds.
(5) Misconceptions about prostitutes pointed out by other authors (Pomeroy, 1965; Gebhard, 1969), such as marked infertility, irreligiousness, and homosexuality, are also contested by this study.
(6) Even though Britain is one of the most irreligious countries on Earth, with just one in 10 attending church each week and a quarter of Britons having no religious beliefs, the Church of England still runs one in four primary and secondary schools in England, while its bishops sit in the House of Lords, making Britain the only country – other than Iran – to have automatically unelected clerics sitting in the legislature.
(7) Caravaggio’s religious paintings give the lie to his irreligious life.
(8) Not that Zionism was ever a totally irreligious movement.
(9) The Catholic church has its own problems, but it shares its principal one with Protestants: Britain is irreligious, if not yet atheist.
(10) This power of the postbag has awed parliamentarians in Holyrood and Westminster, sometimes cowing ministers into backing down, as when Labour dropped plans to force faiths schools to offer some places to irreligious pupils.
Irreligiously
Definition:
(adv.) In an irreligious manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) At a press conference following the judgment, Ramdev invited the gay community to his yoga ashram where he said he would "cure them of homosexuality", which he described as "unnatural, uncivilised, immoral, irreligious and abnormal".
(2) Fear of stigma, contact with the irreligious world, "yihud" with opposite sex therapists, suspicion of irreligious healers of the Jewish "nefesh", and seeing such a need as a sign of weakness of faith all serve to deter the religious patient from seeking help.
(3) The notion that The Catcher in the Rye is an immoral and irreligious work has largely given way to the antithetical view – that Salinger's chief impulse is specifically religious.
(4) Those who become radicalised typically come from irreligious backgrounds.
(5) Misconceptions about prostitutes pointed out by other authors (Pomeroy, 1965; Gebhard, 1969), such as marked infertility, irreligiousness, and homosexuality, are also contested by this study.
(6) Even though Britain is one of the most irreligious countries on Earth, with just one in 10 attending church each week and a quarter of Britons having no religious beliefs, the Church of England still runs one in four primary and secondary schools in England, while its bishops sit in the House of Lords, making Britain the only country – other than Iran – to have automatically unelected clerics sitting in the legislature.
(7) Caravaggio’s religious paintings give the lie to his irreligious life.
(8) Not that Zionism was ever a totally irreligious movement.
(9) The Catholic church has its own problems, but it shares its principal one with Protestants: Britain is irreligious, if not yet atheist.
(10) This power of the postbag has awed parliamentarians in Holyrood and Westminster, sometimes cowing ministers into backing down, as when Labour dropped plans to force faiths schools to offer some places to irreligious pupils.