desecration
Example Sentences
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The non-profit group Cultural Landscape Foundation has sued to stop the makeover, calling the blue paint job "desecration."
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
Piling actual music on top of it is redundant, if not a desecration.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026
So going back nearly 60 years, the late Mr. Flint has been left to quietly suffer the indignities of desecration and abandonment, but for temporary intervention.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2026
"That original taking was illicit, was unethical, was a form of desecration," he told BBC News NI.
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2025
At the foot of the four-poster, the seat of a Chippendale sofa had been so carefully straightened that sitting down would have seemed a desecration.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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