anathema
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This was anathema to Busby the bluegrass purist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
As somebody who was at the DOJ for 21 years, I find that to be anathema to how I thought about public service.
From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2026
District Judge William G. Young, a Ronald Reagan appointee, recently pointed out that use of masked law enforcement officers had long been considered anathema to American ideals.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2025
“Apartment buildings are anathema to the city’s ethos.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2025
This choice was anathema to Sullivan, who abhorred derivative architecture, but during the meeting he made no objection.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
As he pronounced anathemas on you and your kind, the smile peeked out beneath the sneer.
From Slate ● Dec. 16, 2011
When he hurls his anathemas, he tends to scream unintelligibly, suggesting the hapless actor of whom Kenneth Tynan wrote that listening to his Lear "was like lip reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning."
From Time Magazine Archive
She utters her prophecies and anathemas as if the blood of Cassandra were coursing through her veins.
From Time Magazine Archive
The next year, the Patriarch and the Pope officially revoked the mutual anathemas that had been hurled at the start of the schism between East and West in 1054.
From Time Magazine Archive
All those with whom she had to do--except Doreen--were for ever prating of the Saxon's iron heel, shaking their fists at Heaven, venting dark anathemas and muttering such threats as terrified her.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
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