defiling
Example Sentences
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Let’s start with the users defiling the site with parodies of Musk and prominent corporations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2022
The country's blasphemy law prohibits disturbing a religious assembly, trespassing on burial grounds, insulting religious beliefs or intentionally destroying or defiling a place or an object of worship.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2022
"I don't want to reinforce that defiling the Capitol was OK. I don't want to do anything that would make this more likely in the future," he told CBS.
From Reuters ● Jan. 31, 2022
Others see the mining as defiling the land on the reserve by polluting the waters, stripping bare the land, as well as upending centuries-old cultural traditions.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 17, 2022
He hid his terror in his heart, however, and addressed the stranger: “What country is your fatherland? No hateful and defiling lies, I beg you. Tell me the truth.”
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
