anathema

But such policies would be anathema to Frenchmen young and old, immigrant and indigenous.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

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

As somebody who was at the DOJ for 21 years, I find that to be anathema to how I thought about public service.

From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2026

But amongst MPs in the other place next door, and outside the Houses of Parliament, the idea of continuing to allow aristocrats seats by dint of birth is anathema to many.

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026

This choice was anathema to Sullivan, who abhorred derivative architecture, but during the meeting he made no objection.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

When he hurls his anathemas, he tends to scream unintelligibly, suggesting the hapless actor of whom Kenneth Tynan wrote that listening to his Lear "was like lip reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning."

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

She may still continue to fulminate her absurd and innocuous anathemas, but this is about all.

From Ingersoll in Canada A Reply to Wendling, Archbishop Lynch, Bystander; and Others by Allen Pringle