The Collaborative International Dictionary
Irreverently \Ir*rev"er*ent*ly\, adv. In an irreverent manner.
Wiktionary
adv. In an irreverent manner.
WordNet
adv. without respect; "the student irreverently mimicked the teacher in his presence" [ant: reverentially]
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"
Usage examples of "irreverently".
In Crete he appears as Iasius or Zeus, whose worship remaining unveiled by the usual forms of mystery, betrayed to profane curiosity the symbols, which, if irreverently contemplated, were sure to be misunderstood.
Crete he appears as Iasius or even Zeus, whose orgiastic worship, remaining unveiled by the usual forms of mystery, betrayed to profane curiosity the symbols which, if irreverently contemplated, were sure to be misunderstood.
It seemed to be the way of these Normans to behave so irreverently toward their lord, and it seemed to be his way to accept it of them.
It is only intended to insist upon those claims of the partisans, which, unasserted by themselves, have been a little too irreverently dismissed by others.
Governor is sometimes irreverently called by our most venerable, but still youthful antiquary,--and to the other public Dudleys, of course,--of all of whom he made small account, as being himself an English gentleman, with little taste for the splendors of provincial office, early in the last century, Thomas Dudley had built this mansion.
These were not the 35,000-ton giants of the regular fleet-ships like the Indefatigable and the Illustrious-but 15-20,000 ton auxiliary carriers, irreverently known as banana boats.
The idea of a railroad train actually running to old dead Pompeii, and whistling irreverently, and calling for passengers in the most bustling and business-like way, was as strange a thing as one could imagine, and as unpoetical and disagreeable as it was strange.
Irreverently he wondered if the Thek was sitting on it, had ingested it, or perhaps created a heat-resistant pouch in which it could keep bits and pieces of fragile alien manufacture.