SACRILEGE Synonyms: 26 Similar and Opposite Words

sacrilege

noun

ˈsa-krə-lij

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 on the Web 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 But don’t mention such sacrilege to the guys on the Arrowhead Assault Vehicle. —

Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 26 Jan. 2024 See all Example Sentences for sacrilege

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