as in blasphemy
an act of great disrespect shown to God or to sacred ideas, people, or things
spitting on the temple floor would be a great sacrilege
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Recent Examples of sacrilege
This kind of thing, sacrilege when a lot of us were growing up around here, is more common nowadays.
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Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 7 July 2024
Gutiérrez has also done something that some might consider a sacrilege.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2024
All this is close to sacrilege for the people of the United Kingdom, who are thought to drink about 100 million cups of the stuff every day — about 1.5 per person — but do so without many splashes of creativity.
—Patrick Smith, NBC News, 24 Jan. 2024
The priest offers to ransom her with a priceless treasure, which Agamemnon spurns rudely, and Apollo punishes this sacrilege with a plague.
—Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
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Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 7 July 2024
Gutiérrez has also done something that some might consider a sacrilege.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2024
All this is close to sacrilege for the people of the United Kingdom, who are thought to drink about 100 million cups of the stuff every day — about 1.5 per person — but do so without many splashes of creativity.
—Patrick Smith, NBC News, 24 Jan. 2024
The priest offers to ransom her with a priceless treasure, which Agamemnon spurns rudely, and Apollo punishes this sacrilege with a plague.
—Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sacrilege
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Its advocates point to the fact that pubic officials shrank from condemning the bodyguard who in January 2011 shot Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab, who had spoken out against Pakistan's blasphemy law.Stephen D. Krasner, Foreign Affairs, 29 Nov. 2011
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Some 79 countries around the world continue to enforce blasphemy laws.Kristina M. Lee, The Conversation, 18 Oct. 2024
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Artifact theft and desecration are surprisingly common in national parks.Corey Buhay, Outside Online, 8 Nov. 2024
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Another count, desecration of a human corpse, was dismissed.KC Baker, People.com, 17 Oct. 2024
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That was a violation of a court order banning her from possessing firearms while her other criminal cases played out in court.Caroline Beck, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Nov. 2024
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Hospital officials have said that's not true – and, in fact, would be a violation of a new Ohio law.Amber Hunt, The Enquirer, 21 Nov. 2024
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No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move; ’Twere profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love.John Edgar Wideman, The New Yorker, 8 July 2021
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The first assault is on the Nile itself, which is turned to blood, thereby ruining both agriculture and aquaculture in one swoop, a profanation with religious consequences.Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 28 Nov. 2019
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But the books complement each other in isolating a specific strain of mid-century masculinity, one that’s a strange mix of entitlement and passivity, austerity and impiety, dutifulness and indifference.Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2024
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The impieties are to be taken as possibilities, not as actual truths.Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
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Three members of the council were also accused of corruption.Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 11 Nov. 2024
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Local media reports said hundreds of amateur videos had been found at the finance official’s home during a raid associated with a corruption investigation.Reuters, NBC News, 6 Nov. 2024
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“Sacrilege.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sacrilege. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
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