sacrilegious
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I don’t know if this is sacrilegious, but we serve gumbo with rice, and so I’ll often serve my ratatouille with rice.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 9, 2024
While many Muslims consider visual depictions of the Prophet sacrilegious, the view is not universal.
From Washington Times • Jan. 13, 2023
Iran says it has closed a Tehran-based French institute over "sacrilegious" cartoons of its supreme leader in a French satirical magazine.
From BBC • Jan. 5, 2023
Bethanne Patrick’s July highlights include romance, sci-fi and sacrilegious hijinks, as well as probing memoirs and a new Harvey Weinstein exposé.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 13, 2022
In the fearful tempest which struck the Greeks after they left for Greece, Agamemnon came near to losing all his ships; Menelaus was blown to Egypt; and the arch-sinner, sacrilegious Ajax, was drowned.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
Vocabulary lists containing sacrilegious
The Tragedy of Macbeth
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The Catcher in the Rye
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