Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a transgressive manner; by transgressing.
- In geology, unconformably.
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- adverb In a
transgressive manner
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Examples
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(Concealed within your post however seems to be a lament that your old opportunities for transgressive appreciation of taboo-busting books are no longer available, since no-one CARES if you transgressively appreciate a broken taboo.)
Shoot me now. Roger Sutton 2009
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It could be eight years from now we have Jed Bush as president and books with lesbian mothers will once again be unshelvable in school libraries (and once again only transgressively reviewable in The Digital Hornbook ... thus you may find yourself I. D'd (white hair spiking) as Raging Gramps.)
Shoot me now. Roger Sutton 2009
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Typically, entities that behave transgressively experience blowback: they lose market share or some power they once had.
Chris Jay Hoofnagle: How to Win Friends and Manipulate People 2010
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Typically, entities that behave transgressively experience blowback: they lose market share or some power they once had.
Chris Jay Hoofnagle: How to Win Friends and Manipulate People Chris Jay Hoofnagle 2010
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Strong yet vulnerable, the woman transgressively “playing with fire” was originally intended as an exploration of female sexuality; but soon became overlaid with references (at first barely conscious) to the Holocaust.
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There are, of course, a lot of clips of them doing that song, but I couldn't find that one or any other where they were transgressively pawing at each other, the PDA I'd seen when I was just 14.
"I heard a couple new-sounding tunes on the tubes and they blasted me sky-high..." Ann Althouse 2009
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In the stories I have discussed so far, the heroines 'bodies are transgressively, even exhilaratingly, out of control.
'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_ 2006
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In L.A., please drop an Oscar down Clint Eastwood's chimney for his utterly amazing, transgressively anti-war film, Letters from Iwo Jima.
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EDMONTON - Spike & Mike's Sick and Twisted Animation Festival has been the midwife or abortionist, depending on your taste of such transgressively unique cartoons series as Beavis & Butthead.
Hot Links of Animation Steve Hulett 2007
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Watching the film brings you among them as they engage in that glorious, almost transgressively intimate act that is chamber music.
The Guardian World News Charlotte Higgins 2011
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