idolatrous

Example Sentences

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"Hearts must be set free from an idolatrous thirst for profit," the Pope said.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

I am idolatrous, searching for false hope in the Gods of Perfect Bodies, the ones I’ve always wanted as my own, the bodies that I’ll never have.

From Slate • Jul. 29, 2023

Would she pounce on some unwittingly idolatrous remark of mine and eviscerate me as she had done Bloom?

From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2016

By the time of the English Civil War, church monuments were being smashed as idolatrous; wall paintings were covered with whitewash, brass plaques melted down for profit.

From The Guardian • Jan. 12, 2013

As he beheld it, the scales fell at last from the eyes of Gaston de Launay, and he saw what this woman was whom he had worshipped with such mad, blind, idolatrous passion.

From Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by Ouida