anathema
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Ceding federal lands is also anathema to land preservation groups, which expressed dismay at the idea that any piece of Yosemite might be lost, no matter how small.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
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
An inherent suspicion of good writing is probably anathema to producing good writing.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2025
The latter, never mind everything else about Massenet, would have been anathema to drama-obsessed Wagner.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
As he pronounced anathemas on you and your kind, the smile peeked out beneath the sneer.
From Slate ● Dec. 16, 2011
She utters her prophecies and anathemas as if the blood of Cassandra were coursing through her veins.
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 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
Sergius, duke of the Neapolitans, continued to favour the Saracens, notwithstanding the anathemas of Rome, and in despite of the remonstrances of his brother Athanasius, bishop of Naples.
From The Power Of The Popes by Pierre Claude Fran?ois Daunou
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