sacrilege

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Recent Examples of sacrilege On a warm March day—the kind that makes being indoors feel sacrilege—we were told to pack up for at least two weeks away and leave campus as soon as possible. Grace McCarty, SELF, 9 Oct. 2024 But there has been fierce resistance along the way, particularly from some fellow surfers who think the whole idea of turning an intimate, almost zen-like communion with nature into a competition is sacrilege. Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 26 July 2024 This kind of thing, sacrilege when a lot of us were growing up around here, is more common nowadays. Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 7 July 2024 Gutiérrez has also done something that some might consider a sacrilege. Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2024 See All Example Sentences for sacrilege
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sacrilege
Noun
  • Pakistan's Christians, barely 2 percent of the population, face lynchings over false accusations of blasphemy, with 2024 seeing churches burned and families displaced.
    Kevin Sabet, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025
  • For this theme to have been chosen only after the tragic passing of pioneering fashion icon, long-time Vogue editor-at-large, and unmistakable dandy, Andre Leon Talley, is a sort of blasphemy.
    Akilah Sailers, Essence, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Yet Jesus becomes angered by the desecration of the temple and begins tipping over the merchants' tables in the holy place while wielding a righteous whip.
    Erin Jensen, USA Today, 3 May 2025
  • In the first of thirteen live, three-hour shows (with Nelle sitting in the studio audience), the thirty-five-year-old Reagan, accompanied by four Black actors, dramatically reenacted Klan cross-burnings, beatings and shootings, and the desecration of synagogues.
    Richard D. Mahoney, JSTOR Daily, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The complaint at the crux of Lopez v. Apple is a violation of privacy.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 15 May 2025
  • That's a seeming violation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Noyb alleged.
    Ashley Belanger – May 14, ArsTechnica, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • Scottish hen parties were deemed to contain ritualistic profanation.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • The series is centered on organized crime and corruption in Atlantic City during the Prohibition era, using real-life characters like Al Capone, Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky.
    Alex Knapp, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
  • Trump's Justice Department dropped corruption charges against Adams earlier this year.
    Sarah N. Lynch, USA Today, 22 May 2025

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“Sacrilege.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sacrilege. Accessed 29 May. 2025.

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