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“Actually, I was wondering if you had some clothes I could borrow that don’t smell completely like a desecrated pig,” Gibby said.

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Any of Gein’s contemporaries who are still alive would have been too young to fully grasp the enormity of the way he desecrated the memory and bodies of their community’s loved ones.

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"We can turn the tables every time, and we can return every land desecrated by these traitors to the nation's fold," he said.

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But that doesn’t mean we should lie to ourselves about the FBI’s mission and history, or pretend that Patel has desecrated a noble, principled and independent institution.

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“Excessively entertainment-oriented portrayals desecrate the nation’s suffering and disrespect the people who made sacrifices,” read a recent commentary published in the state-run Economic Daily newspaper.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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