anathema

But such policies would be anathema to Frenchmen young and old, immigrant and indigenous.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Ceding federal lands is also anathema to land preservation groups, which expressed dismay at the idea that any piece of Yosemite might be lost, no matter how small.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 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

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

All forms of obvious vulgarity were anathema to Keith.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

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 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

She utters her prophecies and anathemas as if the blood of Cassandra were coursing through her veins.

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

Gregory VII. or Boniface VIII. would infallibly have excommunicated Louis IX.: the anathemas of the former would have been formidable, those of the latter could injure the court of Rome alone.

From The Power Of The Popes by Pierre Claude Fran?ois Daunou