lèse majesté
Example Sentences
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The U.N. notes at least 40 individuals have either been convicted or remain in pre-trial detention for lèse majesté since last year’s coup.
From Time • Oct. 13, 2016
Reuters reviewed online postings for which two Thais pleaded guilty and were convicted of lèse majesté: six by Pongsak and five by another man who got 50 years for his comments.
From Reuters • Sep. 3, 2015
As with the popular children's work, The Queen's Knickers, The Uncommon Reader is a piece of audacious lèse majesté which, in an earlier age, would have put its author's head on a spike.
From The Guardian • May 29, 2012
They mentioned her mom Carole Middleton's lèse majesté in chewing gum in the presence of the Queen; they openly mocked the family's business, Party Pieces, a mail-order company that retails decorations and other "partywares."
From Time • Apr. 29, 2011
The major-domo looked at her as if such lèse majesté deserved hanging.
From Bambi by Cooke, Marjorie Benton
