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sacrilegious

/sak-ruh-lij-uhs, -lee-juhs/US // ˌsæk rəˈlɪdʒ əs, -ˈli dʒəs //UK // (ˌsækrɪˈlɪdʒəs) //

亵渎,亵渎神明,神圣的,亵渎神灵

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices.
    • : guilty of sacrilege: a sacrilegious person.

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Examples

  • Prosecutors said the group had "insulted in a sacrilegious manner the centuries-old foundations of the Russian Orthodox Church".

  • For the original readers, these changes are considered sacrilegious.

  • True confession: I hated Madame Bovary, sacrilegious as that sounds.

  • Talking about good and evil is fine, but conflating the American government with good is sacrilegious.

  • Here was truly a sacrilegious adoration; yet we are not told that it excited discontent.

  • From thence he commanded the sacrilegious wretch to be thrown down into the ashes, all men thrusting him forward unto death.

  • That sacrilegious wretch, who carries on his shield the portrait of Malborgiane, his mistress!

  • It was plain I had stumbled with sacrilegious feet into the room of the daughter of the house.

  • They stood in front of the door of the tomb and spoke some sacrilegious words.