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.
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Sacrilegiously
Synonyms for "sacrilegiously"
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6 translations across 6 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- sacrílegament adv (in a sacrilegious manner)
French
1 entries- sacrilégement adv (in a sacrilegious manner)
Italian
1 entries- sacrilegamente adv (in a sacrilegious manner)
Portuguese
1 entries- sacrilegamente adv (in a sacrilegious manner)
Russian
1 entries- кощунственно adv (in a sacrilegious manner)
Spanish
1 entries- sacrílegamente adv (in a sacrilegious manner)
Sample sentences
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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 […]
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