defilement

Example Sentences

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Stepping out of the car, she was “completely shocked” by the defilement.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2024

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

A bad apple might be icky and distasteful, but befouled meat caused a related, but totally distinct, sensation cluster of contamination, queasiness and defilement.

From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2021

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

It reminded me that even the dead possessed HaShem’s sanctity and divine beauty and that no manner of defilement could take that away.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros