SACRILEGE Synonyms: 26 Similar and Opposite Words

sacrilege

noun

ˈsa-krə-lij

Definition of sacrilege

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 Sure, Texans are very hospitable, but playing anything other than country music over the speakers is normally considered sacrilege in that establishment. — Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 19 June 2026 But by then, religious and political leaders from around the world condemned the image, some calling it a sacrilege. — Miami Herald, 23 Apr. 2026 In other words, there’s a chance that Jenner could reach free agency and sign with another club, an idea that would have seemed near sacrilege not long ago. — Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2026 At many Jewish institutions, rejecting Zionism is indeed regarded as a form of sacrilege. — Eyal Press, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for sacrilege

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Noun

That might have sounded like blasphemy just half a decade ago, but college football is always evolving, and Swinney is a man stuck in time.

— Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 7 Sep. 2026
Politicians and preachers denounced them for blasphemy, perversion, and their loud support for civil rights.

— Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of blasphemy

Noun

These are two examples of politicians' truths among a plethora of others that are really lies, distortions, deceptions and desecrations of the citizens' trust in them.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2026
Cutting down a tree is this ultimate symbol of the desecration of the environment, but that wasn’t always the case.

— Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of desecration

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The order warned any construction or demolition before the NPS issues final authorization would be a violation of the court.

— Kristin Wright, NPR, 20 Sep. 2026
Former Edison football coach Dave White remembers suspending his team’s best player before a trip to Hawaii for a team rule violation.

— Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of violation

Noun

Paxton had argued that the law-school clinic was not a classroom but a workplace, and that Fisher was punished not for expressing political views but because her cursing and volume had disrupted clinic business.

— Benjamin Wofford, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
The cursing is definitely a big part of being that age, and especially misplaced cursing is funny — kids who don’t exactly know how to curse correctly.

— Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of cursing

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Because of the high likelihood of corruption, our devices encode messages with enough redundancy that they can be pieced together by the receiving machine despite the errors incurred in transit.

— Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2026
Miami Vice ’85, with a screenplay by Dan Gilroy, explores the glamour and corruption of mid-1980s Miami in an all-new version of Miami Vice, inspired by the pilot episode of the landmark 1984-90 NBC series.

— Justin Kroll, Deadline, 17 Sep. 2026

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