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Adverb: irreverently  i're-vu-runt-lee
  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"

See also: irreverent

Antonym: reverently

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