sacrilegious

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Alfie, who’s either being willfully obtuse or radically uncompromising, sees nothing sacrilegious in Wilde’s one-act tragedy.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2025

I don’t know if this is sacrilegious, but we serve gumbo with rice, and so I’ll often serve my ratatouille with rice.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 9, 2024

While many Muslims consider visual depictions of the Prophet sacrilegious, the view is not universal.

From Washington Times • Jan. 13, 2023

Iran says it has closed a Tehran-based French institute over "sacrilegious" cartoons of its supreme leader in a French satirical magazine.

From BBC • Jan. 5, 2023

“Please. I would feel terrible throwing them away. Obviously they were important to the people who used to live here. It would feel, I don’t know, sacrilegious or something.”

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri