Definition of Sacrilegious

acting in a disrespectful manner towards something or someone considered to be holy

Examples of Sacrilegious in a sentence

Burning the Bible is a sacrilegious act.  🔊

When I questioned my religious leader, my fellow church members called me sacrilegious.  🔊

The racist group’s sacrilegious destruction of the church was front-page news.  🔊

In some religions, the act of killing a cow is considered sacrilegious and offensive to God.  🔊

Only a sacrilegious person would steal art from a synagogue.  🔊

Even though I knew Bill was intoxicated, I could not believe he would do something as sacrilegious as urinating on a person’s grave.  🔊

How do you think the church will respond to the sacrilegious accusations made about the Pope?  🔊

If you use your mobile phone in the sacred temple, you will be cast out as consequence for your sacrilegious deed.  🔊

Spray painting graffiti on the outside of a church is a very sacrilegious act.  🔊

According to my conservative mother, it is sacrilegious for me to play rap music on the church organ.  🔊

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