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What does sacrilegious mean?

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Adjective
  1. Committing sacrilege; acting or speaking very disrespectfully toward what is held to be sacred.
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It is unlawful to prohibit immoral or sacrilegious films in a public school.
In the U.S., the frequency with which religious groups have waged campaigns over supposedly sacrilegious paintings is starting to get tiring.
I think it would be regarded as sacrilegious to bomb the World Heritage sites of Egypt, but I am not sure we have the same scruples about Iraq.
This seems to me a mistake, as Balthus shared nothing of the Surrealists' irreverent, even sacrilegious tendencies.
It must be considered sacrilegious for a Raider fan not to wear a black shirt.
The priestesses and priests turning towards the setting sun, the dwelling of the infernal gods, devoted with curses the sacrilegious wretch.

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