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

“We can’t just take, defile and desecrate someone’s body without consent,” Numa says.

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2024

Tourists are not the first to desecrate the lake in the eyes of locals.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 18, 2024

They joined ecstatic cults and allowed sick refugees to desecrate the great temples, where they died untended.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

“It’s everything that rock’n’roll isn’t. It sort of desecrates the name of rock’n’roll.”

From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2016

But for many of those who grieve, I suspect just talking about the quality of this memorial as a public space desecrates the site.

From New York Times ● May 28, 2014

Oh, what shall I do? what shall I do while this miscreant remains here?—this villain whose very presence desecrates the roof and dishonors me?

From Hidden Hand by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

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

I regretted being honest, because in the moment, it felt as though honesty had desecrated the connection Allen and I were building.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 28, 2025

In a London auditorium, a work of art is being desecrated.

From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2024

All this was surrounded by a white picket fence built so sturdily that the Chateau Martinez was the only place in town which had never been desecrated by Pacheco’s pig.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

The practice has alarmed de la Espriella’s political opponents and human-rights groups, who accuse him of displaying the dead as trophies and violating international rules that prohibit desecrating those killed in operations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

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

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

But just know you’re desecrating a sacred space.

From Salon ● Jan. 11, 2026

The vision of Logan Killicks was desecrating the pear tree, but Janie didn’t know how to tell Nanny that.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston