anathema
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But such policies would be anathema to Frenchmen young and old, immigrant and indigenous.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
District Judge William G. Young, a Ronald Reagan appointee, recently pointed out that use of masked law enforcement officers had long been considered anathema to American ideals.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2025
An inherent suspicion of good writing is probably anathema to producing good writing.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2025
“Apartment buildings are anathema to the city’s ethos.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2025
Any book that postulated an escape, I would have thought, would have been anathema to the superintendent.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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
The American Medical Association, which in the past has pronounced anathemas on anything sounding like medical price control, is also giving support to the Administration's plan.
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
They said they had a hunter's gun in their cabin to keep off bears, and knew several powerful sentences and anathemas against demons.
From The Monk and The Hangman's Daughter by Ambrose Bierce
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