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
In the period between the military takeover in May and December last year, the government blocked 1,200 web sites on the grounds they carried content violating lèse majesté, local newspaper Matichon reported, citing Pornchai.
From Reuters • Sep. 3, 2015
Touching her is an act of lèse majesté, as Michelle Obama discovered.
From Time • Sep. 25, 2014
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
On his return he was convicted of lèse majesté and sent to prison.
From East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne by Betham-Edwards, Matilda
