untouchably

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English

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Etymology

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From untouchable +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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untouchably (comparative more untouchably, superlative most untouchably)

  1. In an untouchable manner.
    • 2007 May 20, Ginia Bellafante, “In the ‘24’ World, Family Is the Main Casualty”, in New York Times[1]:
      Parenthood, untouchably sacrosanct in so much of our culture, is on “24” a grotesquely compromised institution.