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nonpracticing

a. Not practicing; of a person in a particular profession, not engaged in the practice of that profession; of a person born into a particular religion, not abiding by the rituals and mores of that religion.

Usage examples of "nonpracticing".

Ivy stiffened, and I wondered if the unnatural distance she put between herself and everyone had everything to do with her being a nonpracticing vamp.

He was a nonpracticing Methodist, and privately thought that John Groggins was the asshole of the Western world.

What it boiled down to was, the smell of our natural scents mingling tended to act like a blood aphrodisiac, making it harder for Ivy to best her instincts, nonpracticing or not.

She was the daughter of a woman who was a nonpracticing Jew and a man who was a lapsed Methodist, and he supposed her ideas about the whole spiritus mundi were of the vaguest sort—not myths, not dreams, but dreams of dreams.

Rosenzweig, the latter still considered himself a nonreligious, nonpracticing Jew.

I married a nonpracticing Jewish man ten years ago, and we got along fine until about eighteen months ago.