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sacrilegious
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective sacrilegious has 1 sense
- sacrilegious(s = adj.all) blasphemous, profane - grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred; "blasphemous rites of a witches' Sabbath"; "profane utterances against the Church"; "it is sacrilegious to enter with shoes on" Derived forms noun sacrilege1, noun sacrilegiousness1
CIDE DICTIONARY
sacrilegious, a. [From sacrilege: cf. L. sacrilegus.].
Violating sacred things; polluted with sacrilege; involving sacrilege; profane; impious. [1913 Webster]
"Above the reach of sacrilegious hands."
[1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
sacrilegious
aberrant, abnormal, abominable, apostate, atheistic, atrocious, backsliding, blasphemous, criminal, delinquent, deviant, disgraceful, disrespectful, evil, fallen, fallen from grace, hardly the thing, heretical, ignominious, illegal, impious, improper, inappropriate, incorrect, indecorous, infamous, irreligious, irreverent, lapsed, not done, not the thing, off-base, off-color, out-of-line, profanatory, profane, recidivist, recidivistic, recreant, renegade, scandalous, shameful, shameless, sinful, terrible, undue, undutiful, unfit, unfitting, ungodly, unlawful, unrighteous, unseemly, unsuitable, wicked, wrong, wrongfulROGET THESAURUS
sacrilegious
Impiety
N impiety, sin, irreverence, profaneness, profanity, profanation, blasphemy, desecration, sacrilege, scoffing, hypocrisy, pietism, cant, pious fraud, lip devotion, lip service, lip reverence, misdevotion, formalism, austerity, sanctimony, sanctimoniousness, pharisaism, precisianism, sabbatism, sabbatarianism, odium theologicum, sacerdotalism, bigotry blue laws, hardening, backsliding, declension, perversion, reprobation, sinner, scoffer, blasphemer, sacrilegist, sabbath breaker, worldling, hypocrite, Tartufe, Mawworm, bigot, saint, Pharisee, sabbatarian, formalist, methodist, puritan, pietist, precisian, religionist, devotee, ranter, fanatic, juramentado, the wicked, the evil, the unjust, the reprobate, sons of men, sons of Belial, the wicked one, children of darkness, impious, irreligious, desecrating, profane, irreverent, sacrilegious, blasphemous, un-hallowed, un-sanctified, un-regenerate, hardened, perverted, reprobate, hypocritical, canting, pietistical, sanctimonious, unctuous, pharisaical, overrighteous, righteous over much, bigoted, fanatical, priest-ridden, under the mask of religion, under the cloak of religion, under the pretense of religion, under the form of religion, under the guise of religion, giovane santo diavolo vecchio.
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