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
Muslims consider images of the prophet to be sacrilegious and encouraging of idolatry.
From Washington Times • Dec. 8, 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
By the 1590s, Elizabeth has grown into an ageless, almost sacrilegious icon, clutching a rainbow in her outstretched hand.
From New York Times • Oct. 9, 2022
“Please. I would feel terrible throwing them away. Obviously they were important to the people who used to live here. It would feel, I don’t know, sacrilegious or something.”
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Vocabulary lists containing sacrilegious
The Tragedy of Macbeth
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The Catcher in the Rye
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