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  • adverb In an unrespectable manner.

Etymologies

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unrespectable +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • "Ain't you 'shamed, Netty," cried Kizzie, in a tone of solemn rebuke, "to speak so unrespectably of the Lord's anointed?

    The Planter's Northern Bride 1854

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