sacrilegious

sacrilegious
    adj 1: 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" [syn: {blasphemous}, {profane},
           {sacrilegious}]
    

Sacrilegious \Sac`ri*le"gious\, a. [From sacrilege: cf. L.
   sacrilegus.]
   Violating sacred things; polluted with sacrilege; involving
   sacrilege; profane; impious.
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         Above the reach of sacrilegious hands.   --Pope.
   [1913 Webster] -- {Sac`ri*le"gious*ly}, adv. --
   {Sac`ri*le"gious*ness}, n.
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57 Moby Thesaurus words for "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,
      wrongful