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transgression

[trans-gresh-uhn, tranz-] / trænsˈgrɛʃ ən, trænz- /


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The result is a devastating work of scholarship that commits the ultimate transgression of failing to include the trigger warnings so cherished by the targets of the author’s indictment.

From The Wall Street Journal

On AMC’s “Mad Men” we watched her, as Sally Draper, turn from an adorable little girl to an angsty youth, well aware of her father’s transgressions.

From Los Angeles Times

His pairing of white socks and yellow Crocs stood out as a particular stylistic transgression.

From The Wall Street Journal

Are you trying to give people some kind of communal moment of transgression?

From The Wall Street Journal

The forest becomes a Garden of Eden, marred by human transgressions.

From The Wall Street Journal