irreverently

comparative more irreverently · superlative most irreverently

1. In an irreverent manner.

   Elisha […] was able to call upon two she-bears to come and eat up the children who had treated him irreverently […]

   1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 52

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   He finds out, soon enough for his weal and his bane, that he is stronger than Nature: and right tyrannously and irreverently he lords it over her, clearing, delving, dyking, building, without fear or shame.

   1866, C[harles] Kingsley, “Prelude. Of the Fens.”, in Hereward the Wake, “Last of the English.” […], volume I, London; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 4