idolatrous
Example Sentences
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But seeing Minnelli, physically weakened yet immortally bright-eyed, stirred something in me that I am not used to feeling while watching these idolatrous shows.
From New York Times
In the weeks that followed the murder, IS destroyed several iconic parts of Palmyra from the 1st and 2nd Centuries that it considered idolatrous.
From BBC
On that occasion, it was traditionalists who reacted in fury: they threw what they saw as idolatrous statues into the Tiber.
From The Guardian
Images of the Prophet Muhammad are traditionally forbidden in Islam as idolatrous.
From The Guardian
The celebration has its roots in pagan rituals and is still going strong despite a 1714 law that outlawed it as “superstitious, idolatrous and sinfule, an abominable heathenish practice”.
From The Guardian
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
