desecrating

There were no allegations that the jailers engaged in desecrating Islam.

There are also the looting and desecrating “archaeologists” for whom Wilkinson reserves his most scornful language.

The people of the South charge the Union army with desecrating their church edifices.

Parliament has several times intervened to save the Lake District from the desecrating intrusion of useless railways.

In the far corner the crouching Nap gnawed at that head, tearing, mutilating, desecrating.

In this part of the country, the people are too religious to think of desecrating the Sabbath by violence and armed bands.

She had terrified him too much; had dared to lay desecrating hands on the thing dearest to him in the world.