herostratically

To an extent that attains infamy; infamously.

Adverb

  1. To an extent that attains infamy; infamously.
    • It is precisely the same mode of thought, as lay behind Germany's herostratically notorious act of war when she marched through Belgium for the reason, as she said, that France had planned to march through it if she did...
  2. In a manner using any means necessary.
    • This is just another piece of common sense about philosophy, the one to which the pragmatists herostratically sacrificed everything else. - 1964, Gustav Bergmann, Logic and Reality, page 21:

Origin

From herostratic + -ally.

Forms

Herostratically