Wordnet 3.0
ADVERB (2)
1.
without respect;
- Example: "the student irreverently mimicked the teacher in his presence"2.
in an irreverent manner;
- Example: "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";
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Irreverently \Ir*rev"er*ent*ly\, adv.
In an irreverent manner.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
irreverently
adv 1: without respect; "the student irreverently mimicked the
teacher in his presence" [ant: reverentially,
reverently]
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"