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SACRILEGIOUSLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sacrilegiously mean?
• SACRILEGIOUSLY (adverb)
The adverb SACRILEGIOUSLY has 1 sense:
1. in a sacrilegious manner
Familiarity information: SACRILEGIOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a sacrilegious manner
Pertainym:
sacrilegious (grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred)
Context examples
In the center 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.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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