irreverently
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Irreverently telling her mother before she told it to Louella, Dancer Juliet Prowse, 25, phoned her South African home with "heartsore" news.
From Time Magazine Archive
Irreverently they nicknamed a Franklin bust in the editorial offices "Benny the Bum."
From Time Magazine Archive
"About their shoulders sparrows had built nests And fluttered, chirping, from gray perch to perch, Now on a miter poising, now a crown, Irreverently happy."
From Heroic Spain by O'Reilly, Elizabeth Boyle
About their shoulders sparrows had built nests, And fluttered, chirping, from gray perch to perch, 740 Now on a mitre poising, now a crown, Irreverently happy.
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell
Irreverently removing these, and opening the little doors, Akira bids me look within.
From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series by Hearn, Lafcadio
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