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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of desecrate.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective treated with contempt

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Examples

  • And she, knowing that the shrine has been desecrated, is filled with righteous indignation, though generally as blind as he is to the true cause of what has occurred.

    Married Love: or, Love in Marriage 1918

  • There is nothing holy which is not desecrated, which is not degraded to a mean end among this people.

    Uncollected Prose 2006

  • We have been annoyed at finding his lofty name desecrated to base uses.

    Moon Lore Timothy Harley

  • There is nothing holy which is not desecrated, which is not degraded to a mean end among this people.

    Uncollected Prose 1832

  • But to claim this blogger "desecrated" the photo is ridiculous.

    Palin hits back at 'malicious' photo 2009

  • And I'm supposed to care that a copy of the Koran was "desecrated"

    Archive 2007-06-01 News from Mad Plato 2007

  • And I'm supposed to care that a copy of the Koran was "desecrated"

    RESPONSES TO EMAILED QUESTIONS News from Mad Plato 2007

  • I'm sure "desecrated", if s/he is a real person, never made a joke that could hurt someone else's feelings.

    Body Parts, Cadavers and Rochester Ties, Oh My! 2006

  • Wouldn't the Damarian's be ticked that she "desecrated" their temple?

    HH Com 205 (201) Miss Snark 2006

  • That's the thing being "desecrated" by the implicit legal smear that's painted on gay couples by these unconstitutional laws of exclusion.

    anonymous call, a poison pen 2005

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