superstitiously he refused to travel on Friday the 13th. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : superstitious fears. ,superstitious legends. From Dictionary.com.
He wished to be religiously, superstitiously pure. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867.] Reference
"Don't speak of it," cautioned Irma, superstitiously. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman] Reference
General Hull was evidently superstitiously afraid of an. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
Otherwise, they avoided it as superstitiously as the slaves did. From Wordnik.com. [The Mad Ship]
The move is a pregame ritual that the Pacers superstitiously cling to. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - Carlisle quietly making noise] Reference
Do you have a ritual before going onstage that you're superstitiously do?. From Wordnik.com. [Brad Balfour: Q & A: Actors Sienna Miller And Peter Sarsgaard Explore The Mysteries Of Pittsburgh] Reference
The people near him backed off superstitiously, making a space around him. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
In Northern Mexico still "the Ceris superstitiously celebrate the new moon.". From Wordnik.com. [Moon Lore] Reference
“Ber” in India, where the leaves are superstitiously held peculiarly pure. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
We superstitiously keep silent about it as if that will somehow make us immune. From Wordnik.com. [A dose of laughter: How one man overcame cancer with the help of humor] Reference
She felt guilty, but superstitiously felt as if his bad luck would be catching. From Wordnik.com. [Who Do You Say I Am] Reference
They are the most earnest and devoted, almost superstitiously religious of people. From Wordnik.com. [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891] Reference
Sneezing was so superstitiously regarded, that it came to be counted among the number of gods. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
Another sort of them came out of Blind-Zeal-shire, and they did superstitiously what they did. From Wordnik.com. [The Holy War] Reference
I offered him a cup of soda, which he superstitiously declined, saying it could be "poisoned.". From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest and Theft of Am�rica, Pt. 13] Reference
Gorth picked up some salt that had been spilled and superstitiously threw it over his shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
" D"Alembord superstitiously touched the breast pocket which bulged with his fiancee's letters. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Waterloo]
In those days, a woman whose husband had died was superstitiously held responsible for his death. From Wordnik.com. [WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA]
It's almost as if we watch medical shows superstitiously, as a way of staying out of hospitals personally. From Wordnik.com. ['Boston Med': Compelling but sterilized real-life drama] Reference
Would he be superstitiously afraid of the ship, or intelligently curious enough to examine it more closely?. From Wordnik.com. [Natives of Space]
It is a darkly humored comic that could potentially and superstitiously freak out the person it is based on. From Wordnik.com. [EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Today’s Comic: “Hell of an agent”] Reference
A fist was a sign superstitiously avoided among Healers as being bad luck, but his mind was not on wards and omens. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Gryphon]
They were like schoolboys, with their "No Girls Allowed" signs-or cavemen, superstitiously afraid of the "unclean" woman!. From Wordnik.com. [Phoenix And Ashes]
Latin literature, also, which had never ceased to be almost superstitiously studied, took on a far greater human significance. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
The conclusion I came to at the end of this diverting but limited book is that Dame Judi Dench is superstitiously unrevealing. From Wordnik.com. [And Furthermore by Judi Dench – review] Reference
Their judgements on human affairs tended to be made from a firmly moral, but not superstitiously providential point of view. From Wordnik.com. [My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem] Reference
No; she had, of course, forgotten; still he would leave it, that talisman so precious, which he had cherished almost superstitiously. From Wordnik.com. [Half A Chance] Reference
All his life he had heard the grandfolk prattle superstitiously against eldritch things; now he knew that he despised their cowardice!. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Warlord]
She was afraid that he would miss the bottle which she had secured so almost automatically if so superstitiously: Alick must not come back. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference
She would do anything that was not pleasurable because she was afraid if she had pleasure, that that would superstitiously put her children in danger. From Wordnik.com. [A Mother's 'Minefields' When A Child Deploys] Reference
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