desecrate

“Excessively entertainment-oriented portrayals desecrate the nation’s suffering and disrespect the people who made sacrifices,” read a recent commentary published in the state-run Economic Daily newspaper.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2025

Roberts, 52, can’t see how such a massive development wouldn’t desecrate what is to his people a sacred and historically rich locale.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2024

Calling the painting "sick stuff," Giuliani whined, "you can't do things that desecrate the most personal and deeply held views of people in society."

From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2023

Let’s not desecrate Lincoln Park with the constant noise that pickleball courts will bring.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2023

Papa was anxious to please Grandpa, but not anxious enough to desecrate the Sabbath by singing songs like “Bird in a Gilded Cage” or “Waltz Me Around Again, Willie.”

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

“The theft of items, potential family heirlooms and sentimental pieces from the deceased, not only violates this trust but desecrates the memory of a loved one,” Gascón said in a statement.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2023

First a priest vanishes, then someone desecrates the churches with goat’s blood and finally a creepy itinerant preacher arrives — which is when things take a really bad turn in a small town.

From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2020

Electronic advertising desecrates the bridges, but boringly so, and outside the window of Owen’s Roosevelt Island apartment, a neon ad for Oral-B alternates with one for Jolly Rancher.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 21, 2018

Mr. Khan had filed a brief in the case with a stark personal appeal to the court, saying Mr. Trump’s policy desecrates the memory of his son, U.S.

From Washington Times ● May 17, 2018

But, on the whole, as Time adds much to the sacredness of Symbols, so likewise in his progress he at length defaces, or even desecrates them; and Symbols, like all terrestrial Garments, wax old.

From Sartor Resartus: the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh by Thomas Carlyle

In 2013, attackers desecrated a Protestant cemetery in Jerusalem.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

But tech titan Elon Musk has taken to X on multiple occasions to criticize the film, which in his opinion "desecrated" the story.

From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026

One middle-aged American man wore a cream dinner jacket to be desecrated as a souvenir.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2025

“It gets desecrated more and more every year,” Tortez said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2024

It was easy now to picture what this place would one day become: that sad and desecrated wreck I had first discovered weeks ago.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

A US Supreme Court decision has ruled that burning the US national flag is protected under the First Amendment, invalidating state laws against desecrating the Stars and Stripes.

From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026

He said that he hopes to be released in July, when he finishes serving his five-year sentence for contempt, public disorder and desecrating national symbols.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

That finding strengthened the case against the cemetery workers, who were ultimately convicted in 2015 of desecrating human remains.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2026

A hospitalman at the former Naval Hospital in Chelsea, Mass., was charged with, among other things, desecrating the flag by blowing his nose on one.

From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2025

Then she gave me a toss of her head and marched off to the SIM to collect what-ever her charge was for desecrating.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez