irreverently

From irreverent +‎ -ly.

irreverently (comparative more irreverently, superlative most irreverently)

1. In an irreverent manner.
   • 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:

     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.

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

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

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “irreverently”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “irreverently”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.