sacrilegiously
- a word derived from sacrilegious.
Example Sentences
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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
Several crosses have been found in this part of Derbyshire, but only a few have escaped the dilapidations of age; the others have been, we had almost said sacrilegiously, destroyed as objects of no value.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 563, August 25, 1832 by Various
I protest before all Catholics, in the name of the rights of the church sacrilegiously violated.
From Pius IX. And His Time by Dawson, Æneas MacDonell
And, more disturbing still, that he probably could not say anything about it at all without actually tramping over the sacred soil and perhaps sacrilegiously digging into it.
From Herbert Hoover The Man and His Work by Kellogg, Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman)
