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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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.
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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
These miracles, as the girls begin to call them, put her at odds with the head mother, Sister Veronica (Emily Kuroda), who views the power as an expression of evil and the girls’ use of it as sacrilege.
—Elaina Patton, NBC News, 3 Apr. 2023
How would an electric stove appear in a Nancy Meyers movie other than as a sacrilege along the order of linoleum at Versailles?
—Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2023
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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
These miracles, as the girls begin to call them, put her at odds with the head mother, Sister Veronica (Emily Kuroda), who views the power as an expression of evil and the girls’ use of it as sacrilege.
—Elaina Patton, NBC News, 3 Apr. 2023
How would an electric stove appear in a Nancy Meyers movie other than as a sacrilege along the order of linoleum at Versailles?
—Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2023
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