do violence to
Example Sentences
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As professors Daniel Hemel and Eric Posner observe, construing the word “whoever” to mean “whoever except the president” would do violence to the English language.
From Slate • Apr. 30, 2024
But a panel of five judges on the Court of Final Appeal unanimously overturned both the conviction and sentence on Friday, saying such a wide interpretation "would do violence to the language".
From Reuters • Jul. 15, 2022
“If we are to reject speech because it comes from an unorthodox group, we do violence to the very underpinnings of our notions of liberty,” Randazza and Wolman wrote.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 2, 2018
Do not do violence to the author’s tone, manner, nature, style, thumbprint.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 14, 2015
All I can hope to do is so to reconcile the principles of omission and condensation as least to do violence to the style while preserving as far as possible the completeness of the exposition.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
