idolatrous

Example Sentences

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On that occasion, it was traditionalists who reacted in fury: they threw what they saw as idolatrous statues into the Tiber.

From The Guardian • Feb. 14, 2020

I have seen at first hand a variety of experiences where workers united in cooperatives and other forms of community organization were able to create work where there were only crumbs of an idolatrous economy.

From Time • Jul. 10, 2015

Some Muslims observe the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad, while others think the practice idolatrous.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2012

Most were thought to have been destroyed after Spanish officials decreed them to be idolatrous in 1583.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2010

I sometimes think he loved that girl desperately, and would have made her an idolatrous husband.

From Checkmate by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan