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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 mannerplay

  Familiarity information: SACRILEGIOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SACRILEGIOUSLY (adverb)


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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