sacrilegious
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Sacrilegious smart-alecks were not long in coining his nickname.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sacrilegious villains!" cried he, "give up your impious purpose, and resign the body of the recreant lost one.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 473, January 29, 1831 by Various
Sacrilegious people called him a fool; poor people called him a hypocrite, a cruel man who gained a livelihood by making others miserable; while his inferiors looked upon him as a despot and a tyrant.
From Friars and Filipinos An Abridged Translation of Dr. Jose Rizal's Tagalog Novel, 'Noli Me Tangere.' by Rizal, José
Sacrilegious theft— of first order, 6. of second order, 8.
From The Oldest Code of Laws in the World The code of laws promulgated by Hammurabi, King of Babylon B.C. 2285-2242 by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)
Sacrilegious feet tramp the solitudes, and sandwich papers become common objects of the sea-shore.
From Without Prejudice by Zangwill, Israel
Vocabulary lists containing sacrilegious
The Tragedy of Macbeth
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Commonly Misspelled Words, List 1
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The Catcher in the Rye
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