sacrilegiously
Americanadverb
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It has clams — sometimes still in their shell — plus, some would say sacrilegiously, pecorino Romano cheese, along with garlic, dried chile, and perhaps oregano or parsley.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2023
“That team was exciting that year, obviously led by Scottie and Toni Kukoc,” Wade said, forgetting Horace Grant and, sacrilegiously, Coach Phil Jackson.
From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2014
But, without entering into their peculiar jargon, or whether a man can be sacrilegiously perjured for revealing secrets when he has none, I do assure my readers, they are very great friends to the vintners.
From Ebrietatis Encomium or, the Praise of Drunkenness by Robert Samber
"Most sacrilegiously and with all possible punctuation!" replied the woodsman.
From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy
One of these trees, of greater size than its companions, was sacrilegiously cut down.
From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston
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