as in violation
an act of great disrespect shown to God or to sacred ideas, people, or things
the communicants were aghast at the desecration of the altar
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Recent Examples of desecration
Another count, desecration of a human corpse, was dismissed.
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Kc Baker, People.com, 17 Oct. 2024
Gledhill is facing nine charges including one count of first degree murder, five counts of felony obstruction of justice, one count of tampering with a witness and one count of abuse or desecration of a dead human body, according to court records.
—Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2024
The flagrant desecration remains a defining feature of Rio’s reputation today.
—The Sorenson Impact Institute, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
There were reports of assaults, threats, damage or desecration and abusive behavior, both in person and online.
—Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 1 Oct. 2024
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Kc Baker, People.com, 17 Oct. 2024
Gledhill is facing nine charges including one count of first degree murder, five counts of felony obstruction of justice, one count of tampering with a witness and one count of abuse or desecration of a dead human body, according to court records.
—Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2024
The flagrant desecration remains a defining feature of Rio’s reputation today.
—The Sorenson Impact Institute, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
There were reports of assaults, threats, damage or desecration and abusive behavior, both in person and online.
—Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 1 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for desecration
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Particularly the no pitch intentional pass and pitch clock violation anomalies.Jayson Stark, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024
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Accountability mechanisms would have to be built in to ensure violations come at a cost.Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 24 Dec. 2024
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For some reason, this idea of a period of cheap fossil fuels to accelerate the energy transition is blasphemy, even though a case study already exists in China.Mark Le Dain, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
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But now here’s Ferrari ratcheting up the blasphemy with—this is not a typo—what seems to be a station wagon.IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Mar. 2012
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But sometimes movies need a little sacrilege to achieve their full potential.Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 13 Sep. 2024
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However, that didn’t stop right-wing figures around the world, including Donald Trump, from claiming that the performance amounted to sacrilege, leading to widespread harassment against Jolly, as well as some of the performers involved.James Factora, Them, 29 Oct. 2024
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He was arrested in 1973 on corruption charges, and his 52-day long trial cost 1.25 million British pounds.Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 25 Dec. 2024
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Adams, 64, was indicted in September on federal corruption charges, pleaded not guilty and denied any wrongdoing.Mark Crudele, ABC News, 21 Dec. 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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The exchange instantly got memed, adding further insult to this legal and emotional injury.Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2024
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The evening spirals out of control as Heavenly and Contessa take their feud to a new low, hurling deeply personal insults about each other’s husbands.Shelby Stewart, Essence, 23 Dec. 2024
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“Desecration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/desecration. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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