lèse majesté
Example Sentences
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Visitors should be aware that lèse majesté cases can be brought by any Thai citizen — no matter what country they reside in, and at any time, against any other individual, Thai or foreign.
From Time • Oct. 17, 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The pace of lèse majesté arrests has slowed since martial law was revoked and they are now handled by police.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
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
They mentioned her mom Carole Middleton's lèse majesté in chewing gum in the presence of the Queen; they openly mocked the family's business, Party Pieces, a mail-order company that retails decorations and other "partywares."
From Time • Apr. 29, 2011
One may hear a nightingale and not mark him; which is a lèse majesté.
From Eleanor by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
