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
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
I really fell for how the show anachronistically positions sound — including Gil Scott-Heron’s poem “Whitey on the Moon” and the theme song from the ’70s sitcom “The Jeffersons” — to propel the story.
From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2020
Most of all, he looked like King Charles II of England anachronistically clad in a Brooks Brothers suit.
From Murder in the Gunroom by Piper, H. Beam
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