(a.) Not pious; wanting piety; irreligious; irreverent; ungodly; profane; wanting in reverence for the Supreme Being; as, an impious deed; impious language.
(1) "There is nothing sacrilegious here, but a clear desire to ruin the mood in our city."
(2) Who will be there to tell others no, you can’t mine there, to do so would be “sacrilegious”?
(3) In a letter to a corporation official, Cottam wrote: "Desecration: graffiti have been scratched and painted on to the great west doors of the cathedral, the chapter house door and most notably a sacrilegious message painted on to the restored pillars of the west portico.
(4) Stravinsky was shocked - he regarded the idea as sacrilegious.
(5) It might sound sacrilegious on a day like this, but budgets aren't generally that important.
(6) Did your family worry that Father Ted was sacrilegious?
(7) Many people are still uneasy about entering a church, worried about doing something wrong or sacrilegious, and fretful about the chance of both giving offence or being evangelised.
(8) It felt heady, almost sacrilegious, to chuck out Iris Murdoch's A Fairly Honourable Defeat , but in the end we decided that this long account of mischief among the chattering classes was probably not her best novel; and I was sad to lose David Lodge's sweet coming-of-age novel Out of the Shelter , which is set in Heidelberg, Germany, shortly after the war.
(9) On Monday three supreme court judges considered whether his painting, Bharat Mata (Mother India), which depicts a nude woman on her knees creating the shape of a map of India, was sacrilegious.
(10) Even the records she made with Stock Aitken Waterman in the late 80s, a collaboration which seemed sacrilegious at the time, are animated by the power and sincerity of her voice.
(11) I know that sounds a bit sacrilegious, but could it be that THE ECOLOGY is actually the biggie?
(12) There was the shock and the grief at the loss of 298 people on a commercial airliner that had nothing whatsoever to do with the war on the ground; there was the disorderly and at times sacrilegious treatment of the crash site; and there were the bitter recriminations about blame.
(13) We've had blasphemous teddy bears and sacrilegious frogs , but this week a new religious animal quivered in the spotlight, as a Saudi cleric insisted that all mice should be killed – including Mickey Mouse.
(14) In the evening we get back into the car - a sacrilegious lump in the Posada's drive - and head a few minutes back down the coast to the tiny village of La Juanita, to La Olada, a restaurant on the front porch of a local chef's house.
(15) Revealing anything about the plot to somebody who hasn’t seen it yet has been treated as practically sacrilegious.