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

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

An inherent suspicion of good writing is probably anathema to producing good writing.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2025

Any book that postulated an escape, I would have thought, would have been anathema to the superintendent.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

As he pronounced anathemas on you and your kind, the smile peeked out beneath the sneer.

From Slate ● Dec. 16, 2011

The Welles-Houseman partnership ended badly, with Welles hurling blazing Sterno heaters at Producer Houseman and howling anathemas at him in that voice of Zeus.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

But anathemas appear to be a part of his daily recreation.

From From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field