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irreverently

ir·re·ve·rently

uncommon

adverb

1.

without respect

  • “the student irreverently mimicked the teacher in his presence”
2.

in an irreverent manner

  • “in the seventeenth century England had known fifty years of doctrinal quarrels and civil war; clergymen had been turned from their cures, and churches irreverently used”

Origin

From irreverent + -ly.

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