Sacrilegiously

adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In a sacrilegious manner; done without proper respect.

    "1970, Stendhal, Translated by Richard N. Coe, New York: Orion Press, Chapter XXII, p. 286, Every Friday, in fact, the priests send out spies into the back-gardens of all the palazzi to hunt for chicken-bones on the rubbish-heaps; the chamber-maid cannot receive absolution at her Easter confession unless she denounces secret carcass-hoards of sacrilegiously-consumed fowls […]"

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a sacrilegious manner wordnet

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"In the centre of the rich red carpet was a black and gold Louis Quinze table, a lovely antique, now sacrilegiously desecrated with marks of glasses and the scars of cigar-stumps."

Etymology

From sacrilegious + -ly.

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