anathema

This was anathema to Busby the bluegrass purist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Instead, they will need to pursue something that’s been largely anathema to the American system of government: accountability.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026

As somebody who was at the DOJ for 21 years, I find that to be anathema to how I thought about public service.

From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2026

But amongst MPs in the other place next door, and outside the Houses of Parliament, the idea of continuing to allow aristocrats seats by dint of birth is anathema to many.

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026

But I found that such a meeting was anathema to ANC leaders in Natal.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

As he pronounced anathemas on you and your kind, the smile peeked out beneath the sneer.

From Slate ● Dec. 16, 2011

The next year the spiritual leaders of Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy withdrew the mutual anathemas that their predecessors had hurled at each other a full millennium before.

From Time Magazine Archive

He can insinuate like a violin, wheedle like a clarinet and thunder anathemas like a great bass drum.

From Time Magazine Archive

The next year, the Patriarch and the Pope officially revoked the mutual anathemas that had been hurled at the start of the schism between East and West in 1054.

From Time Magazine Archive

The abolition churches of the North received the anathemas of the churches of the South and vice versa.

From The History of the Negro Church by Carter Godwin Woodson