Irreverently

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Irreverently \Ir*rev"er*ent*ly\, adv.
     In an irreverent manner.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  irreverently
       adv 1: without respect; "the student irreverently mimicked the
              teacher in his presence" [ant: {reverentially}]
       2: in an irreverent manner; "in the seventeenth century England
          had known fifty years of doctrinal quarrels and civil war;
          clergymen had been turned from their cures, and churches
          irreverently used"