anathema
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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
“Apartment buildings are anathema to the city’s ethos.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2025
He had a notoriously high failure rate, which of course made him the anathema of Carter High School.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
As he pronounced anathemas on you and your kind, the smile peeked out beneath the sneer.
From Slate ● Dec. 16, 2011
The next year, the Patriarch and the Pope officially revoked the mutual anathemas that had been hurled at the start of the schism between East and West in 1054.
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
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
It is noteworthy that all these anathemas are simply for ecclesiastical offences, not for any immorality, however gross.
From From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field
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