defilement

Example Sentences

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It was and is a project of displacement and defilement meant to reverse progress and shame the proponents of that progress.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 5, 2024

Without fanfare or warning, P&D no longer looks like a bizarre defilement, breach or disruption of anything at all.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2019

In 1985, he condemned as “a defilement of history” a visit by President Ronald Reagan and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl to a military cemetery in Bitburg, Germany, where some SS soldiers had been buried.

From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2015

Hazzauna’s shame was her deepest secret and yet she felt the defilement left her oddly transparent.

From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2012

It was simple and, since both Helmholtz and the Savage were dreadfully pained by the shattering and defilement of a favourite poetic crystal, extremely effective.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley