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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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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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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For years, Austin schools had struggled to clear thousands of overdue requests from families that students get evaluated for special education services, which is a law violation.Keri Heath, Austin American-Statesman, 15 Dec. 2024
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Four Marine League coaches decided to forfeit games rather than play Narbonne, alleging rule violations.Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 13 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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Clouzot supplied that insight in strong visual terms: Fresnay’s conflicting impiety and righteous anger and so much dissatisfaction and panic among the townsfolk.Armond White, National Review, 20 Nov. 2024
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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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In 2016, parliament impeached Park Geun-hye, the country’s first female president, over a corruption scandal.Kim Tong-Hyung, Chicago Tribune, 14 Dec. 2024
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The only other president to be successfully impeached was Park Geun-hye, a conservative who left office in 2017 and was sentenced to 22 years in prison for a corruption scandal involving major corporations and the daughter of a cult leader.Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2024
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“Sacrilege.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sacrilege. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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