sacrilegious

[ UK /sˌækɹɪlˈɪd‍ʒəs/ ]
[ US /ˌsækɹəˈɫɛdʒɪs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred
    profane utterances against the Church
    it is sacrilegious to enter with shoes on
    blasphemous rites of a witches' Sabbath

How To Use sacrilegious In A Sentence

  • It shouldn't take such an enormous grassroots effort to prevent sacrilegious exploitation of holy places.
  • It was difficult for a man considering all kinds of violence sinful to conceive that there did exist some use for it in the universe which was not unholy and sacrilegious.
  • Now, I don't want to sound sacrilegious here, but we considered you the ‘high priests’ of our programs.
  • Gallery protests Smithsonian's removal of video some call sacrilegious, anti-Christian Kansas City Star: Front Page
  • For this kind of simony places on a par things supernatural and things natural, things eternal and things temporal, and constitutes a sacrilegious depreciation of Divine treasures. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
  • It must be considered sacrilegious for a Raider fan not to wear a black shirt.
  • But hereby we apprehend that these were not the bones of persons planet-struck or burnt with fire from heaven; no relicks of traitors to their country, self-killers, or sacrilegious malefactors; persons in old apprehension unworthy of the earth; condemned unto the Tartarus of hell, and bottomless pit of Pluto, from whence there was no redemption. Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
  • To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.
  • If they do not remonstrate with the young couple for their sacrilegious behaviour, it may be because that they know that the church over which they have stewardship is an unconsecrated one.
  • Let our simoniacal church-chopping patrons, and sacrilegious harpies, look for no better success. Anatomy of Melancholy
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