anathema

This was anathema to Busby the bluegrass purist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 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

After all, the concept is considered antithetical or anathema to the Iranian Revolution, which deposed the monarchy led by the shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, in 1979.

From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2026

The casual word “untitled” was pretty common in art, but it possesses an air of disinterest that seems anathema in the vicinity of a Therrien.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025

This choice was anathema to Sullivan, who abhorred derivative architecture, but during the meeting he made no objection.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

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

The next year, the Patriarch and the Pope officially revoked the mutual anathemas that had been hurled at the start of the schism between East and West in 1054.

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