anachronistically
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Can a band that’s purposefully, almost anachronistically distant keep the interests of today’s crowds, accustomed to constant connection?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2024
Of course, Kronthaler accessorized it anachronistically with pale blue striped rugby socks.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 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
As a result, the world these characters occupy can appear anachronistically analog.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2020
Probably it was this feat which has confused him with his greater predecessor, the founder of the temple; transferred most anachronistically to this latter the tradition of the actual laying of the ghost.
From Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 by James S. (James Seguin) De Benneville
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