anathema

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

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

Any book that postulated an escape, I would have thought, would have been anathema to the superintendent.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

As he pronounced anathemas on you and your kind, the smile peeked out beneath the sneer.

From Slate ● Dec. 16, 2011

He can insinuate like a violin, wheedle like a clarinet and thunder anathemas like a great bass drum.

From Time Magazine Archive

Theologians from both traditions eventually concluded that the 16th century anathemas were more a function of crossed wires than a denial that salvation is a no-strings-attached gift from God.

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

But I'm not to be drowned, that's clear, till I've settled with that old rogue Pryse,' he says, with an emphasis and a look that are in themselves anathemas.

From The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks