as in atheistical
not showing proper reverence for the holy or sacred
a sacrilegious, obscene joke—and told in church at that!
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Recent Examples of sacrilegious
A lot of people think that’s, like, sacrilegious.
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Peter Mishler
august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
Surely, there’s something utterly sacrilegious about laughing hysterically at actors giving God the middle finger.
—Michael James Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 June 2025
Call me sacrilegious, but there’s one place that a King’s Hawaiian roll tastes even better than the altar rail, and that’s at the beach.
—Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 30 May 2025
But for most Americans, cutting up dead human beings was sacrilegious, disrespectful and disgusting.
—Susan E. Lederer, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2023
See All Example Sentences for sacrilegious
Peter Mishler
august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
Surely, there’s something utterly sacrilegious about laughing hysterically at actors giving God the middle finger.
—Michael James Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 June 2025
Call me sacrilegious, but there’s one place that a King’s Hawaiian roll tastes even better than the altar rail, and that’s at the beach.
—Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 30 May 2025
But for most Americans, cutting up dead human beings was sacrilegious, disrespectful and disgusting.
—Susan E. Lederer, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2023
See All Example Sentences for sacrilegious
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sacrilegious
Adjective
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Stowe is known mainly for Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a novel profoundly informed by her Christian nationalist belief that the United States was failing in its mission to become a New Canaan, precisely because of the blasphemous practice of slavery.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Oct. 2025
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To say that Judge does not have a signature October moment is blasphemous and far from the truth.—
Andrew Wright,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The only true dictionary is the lost one, the dictionary of the language that perished when the impious tower was built: the original language, God’s language.—
Mariana Dimópulos,
Harpers Magazine,
26 Mar. 2025
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This game must have seemed profane to the Greeks, or even impious.—
Simone Weil,
Harper's Magazine,
2 July 2024
Adjective
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Susan sounded irreverent, not official.—
NPR,
NPR,
18 Oct. 2025
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Season 27 of the beloved series is a ratings bonanza for Comedy Central, as well as a creative triumph for its showrunners, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and a delight for fans of irreverent topical satire.—
Kevin Dolak,
HollywoodReporter,
17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Scheeres’s work also inspired me to research the troubled teen industry, the hidden arm of America’s prison industrial complex, a largely unregulated network of religious and secular therapeutic boarding schools, wilderness programs, private youth programs, and drug rehabilitation centers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Oct. 2025
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The movie subsequently gave its monsters a more secular origin story, the spawn of science run amok rather than some malevolent force of evil.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
21 Oct. 2025
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Both Leader and Walton’s works saw a rise in popularity in the 70s as many women became interested in pagan religions, which often depicted female mythological figures as powerful and complex.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Oct. 2025
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When a rigid, devoutly Christian cop (Edward Woodward) arrives in search of a missing girl, he's horrified by the island's embrace of pagan rituals.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
18 Oct. 2025
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“Sacrilegious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sacrilegious. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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