sacrilegious
/ˌsakrɪˈlɪdʒəs
/adjective
Involving or committing sacrilege: a sacrilegious act it seems sacrilegious to say this, but it’s really not that great a film...
- Everything I do seems meaningless, sacrilegious, profane.
- Is spreading the Dhamma electronically sacrilegious?
- It was at once the most sacrilegious and yet mystic moment many of them had ever experienced.
Synonyms
profane, blasphemous, impious, sinful, irreverent, irreligious, godless, ungodly, unholy, disrespectful
Derivatives
sacrilegiously
- In the cavernous inside of the old church punters are sacrilegiously swilling breezers and spirits underneath the enormous pulpit from which fire and brimstone used to spit.
- His current fixations are his latest, sacrilegiously monikered band, The New Beatles (their namesakes were bigger than Jesus, weren't they?).
- Even the richly embroidered crimson tapestry on which Agamemnon sacrilegiously treads is at best suitable for cutting up into dishcloths.
Rhymes
- preserve
- preserved lemon
- preserved pension
- preserver
- pre-service
- preserving glass
- preserving jar
- preserving sugar
- preses
- preset
- presettable
- presexual
- preshadow
- pre-shrink
- preshrinkage
- pre-shrunk
- preside
- presidency
- president
- presidente
- president-elect
- presidentess
- president-for-life
- President General
- presidentiable