(adjective) Meaning: an act of treating a holy place or object in a way that does not show proper respect. ; involving or committing sacrilege; disrespectful toward a sacred person,place, or thing;
image sentence: The man that graffitied the walls of the cathedral was sacrilegious.
Synonyms: profane, blasphemous, impious, disrespectful, ungodly, unholy, irreligious
Antonyms: pious, respectful
Other sentences with the word Sacrilegioud/ How to use Sacrilegious in a sentence?
- When Cassie was asked to say grace she just said “grace”, and her mother thought that was sacrilegious.
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It’s sacrilegious to only have Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin on your Zune.
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Perhaps the Pope would consider the image that Madonna sometimes uses for marketing her image to the youth culture as sacrilegious
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The town’s newcomer was very sacrilegious, he cursed at the pastor and vandalized the church
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Many of his actions, contrary to all tradition, seemed sacrilegious to the people.
First known use/ Origin: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin sacrilegium, from sacrilegus one who robs sacred property, from sacr-, sacer + legere to gather, steal — more at legend
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