lèse majesté
Example Sentences
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The U.N. notes at least 40 individuals have either been convicted or remain in pre-trial detention for lèse majesté since last year’s coup.
From Time • Oct. 13, 2016
The pace of lèse majesté arrests has slowed since martial law was revoked and they are now handled by police.
From Reuters • Sep. 3, 2015
Touching her is an act of lèse majesté, as Michelle Obama discovered.
From Time • Sep. 25, 2014
As with the popular children's work, The Queen's Knickers, The Uncommon Reader is a piece of audacious lèse majesté which, in an earlier age, would have put its author's head on a spike.
From The Guardian • May 29, 2012
How was that for a case of lèse majesté?
From Jewel's Story Book by Burnham, Clara Louise
