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Sacrilegious
Sacrilegious meaning
Committing sacrilege; acting or speaking very disrespectfully toward what is held to be sacred.
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In response, the CEO of Disney has suggested something that may just be sacrilegious.
In the latest sacrilegious act against the Holy Qur'an, two men set the holy book alight at a protest outside parliament in Stockholm on Monday, according to Press TV.
Wikipedia was previously warned by the authority that if it did not remove the “sacrilegious content,” the online encyclopedia would be blocked in Pakistan.
Back in 2016, the Republican called homosexuality an 'abominable sin' and said he would not 'fly their sacrilegious flag on my page' in the aftermath of the Pulse nightclub mass shooting.
Each song is mid-tempo and tracks like "The Sacrilegious Mind Machine" show off their proggy quirkiness.
He’s right that he has the right to mock Christians and be sacrilegious toward Jesus.
Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker tweeted: “In the midst of Eid al-Fitr, a Holy Day of celebration, our city’s Muslim community experienced a sacrilegious act of gun violence today in a West Philadelphia Park.
Reacting to the killing in a statement signed on Wednesday by his spokesman, Moses Olafare, Ooni described the incident as a sacrilegious audacity deliberately planned and executed to undermine the security capacity of Nigeria.
Still, it would be even more sacrilegious to lament Subaru's move, when almost every car on the road today gets electrified.
The film’s sacrilegious treatment of place and character will likely send its fans into a white-hot rage, while it remains simultaneously impenetrable and incomprehensible to the casual viewer.
We listened to the news in silence – in those days it was almost sacrilegious to speak during the news and death announcements.
In 1988, the controversial movie “The Last Temptation of Christ” opened in nine cities, despite objections by some Christians that the film was sacrilegious in its treatment of Jesus.
Cancer care, I am sad to say (and it is almost sacrilegious to do so) seems to have grown into a cottage industry.
Language May Offend: Contains language that may be offensive to some groups, e.g. sacrilegious language such as goddamn; also used for PG films that contain expletives.
Remember that one of the qualities I assigned to this book is “cheeky,” so while it may seem odd — maybe even sacrilegious — to use this beautiful painting in association with “fogo” — trust me, it works.
They were offering me a sacrilegious amount of money.
A community source said the aggrieved family members of the deceased, with the support of some community members in protest, took the corpse to the palace of Ovie of Ogor Kingdom, in what chiefs of the kingdom described as sacrilegious.
Although there were checks and balances for traditional rulers especially in cases of extreme tyranny or corruption of the values of the people, it was sacrilegious to contravene their instructions.
But for the type of person for whom the sanctity of marathoning matters, though, shaving a couple kilometres is sacrilegious.
Sacrilegious redevelopment has become an especially pressing issue to the Vatican because thousands of Catholic churches have shuttered around the world in the past two decades.