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
To sully that legacy seems like sartorial sacrilege.
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Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 18 June 2025
Lea has dropped out of medical school to become a reformed Rabbi – which to her father is a sacrilege.
—Tom Teicholz, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
In Kahane’s theology, Jewish weakness was the sacrilege, and Jewish strength sanctified God.
—Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 30 May 2025
This is culture-making in critical condition, because even the fact that these are static industries is a version of sacrilege.
—Harmony Holiday, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
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Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 18 June 2025
Lea has dropped out of medical school to become a reformed Rabbi – which to her father is a sacrilege.
—Tom Teicholz, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
In Kahane’s theology, Jewish weakness was the sacrilege, and Jewish strength sanctified God.
—Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 30 May 2025
This is culture-making in critical condition, because even the fact that these are static industries is a version of sacrilege.
—Harmony Holiday, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for sacrilege
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sacrilege
Noun
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Yes, all this is whimsical blasphemy.—
Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
14 Sep. 2025
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Many societies in the past have linked swearing to blasphemy or sin.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In October 2023 alone,1,330 instances of antisemitism were reported by the CST, which includes assault, damage or desecration, threats and abusive behavior against Jews.—
Caitlin McFall,
FOXNews.com,
2 Oct. 2025
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Years before, many conservatives—including myself—spoke out against grievance studies, the 1619 Project, the desecration of the curriculum.—
Ayaan Hirsi Ali,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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No violations of Polish airspace were reported.—
Emma Marsden,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Sep. 2025
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Portland sent a notice to the building’s private owners last week, saying ICE has committed code violations by boarding up windows and keeping some detainees in the holding facility for longer than 12 hours.—
Andy Rose,
CNN Money,
28 Sep. 2025
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Running offstage, costumes disheveled, strategizing, cursing.—
Lauren Rothery,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
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Steve heads up a reform school for volatile, cursing and rabble-rousing English boys, and his mental health is tested when a documentary crew shows up and word gets out the school is closing.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
16 Sep. 2025
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Scottish hen parties were deemed to contain ritualistic profanation.—
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,
Harpers Magazine,
28 Mar. 2025
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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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By one hand, he is bound to himself, to his impiety, his recklessness, his envy and pride, his guilt and spite.—
Merve Emre,
The New Yorker,
16 Dec. 2024
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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
Noun
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In 2019, the 37-year-old Bukele ran for president as a populist outsider promising to defeat crime and corruption in a nation with one of the world’s worst homicide rates and a history of former presidents being charged with crimes.—
T. Christian Miller,
ProPublica,
30 Sep. 2025
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Milei has had more success taming Argentina’s hyperinflation than first expected, but has been dealing with a brewing currency crisis and several corruption scandals.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Sacrilege.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sacrilege. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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