anachronistically
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Of course, Kronthaler accessorized it anachronistically with pale blue striped rugby socks.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 1, 2022
The choice made the food respectable to successive waves of non-Mexicans and survives in the anachronistically titled “Spanish” rice.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2022
At one point, speaking of Captain Wentworth, the man she still loves after having foolishly rejected years earlier, she anachronistically observes that “now we’re worse than exes — we’re friends.”
From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2022
Most delightfully of all, the over-confident string bean anachronistically decked out in Keanu’s Matrix costume isn’t the living worst.
From Slate • Nov. 5, 2020
Most thinkers of his time were inclined to judge the past career of humanity anachronistically.
From The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth by Bury, J. B. (John Bagnell)
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